Giorgio Graziani

..Among the medical alternatives, a low-fat diet supplemented with medium-chain triglycerides is often followed by complete clinical and biochemical remission...

..Given its mechanism of action, this drug seems the ideal treatment for the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) when the osmotic imbalance leads to life threatening complications...

..The patient progressively gained body weight and improved quality of life. No relapses were observed after 3 years of follow-up. This case emphasizes the possible role of a noninvasive therapeutical option for patients with chyluria...

..In a third of patients presenting with rhabdomyolysis-induced acute renal failure (ARF), a biphasic plasma calcium profile may occur...

..On the basis of cardiovascular compliance, hemodialysis (HD) patients can be classified as hypotension prone (HP) or hypotension resistant (HR)...

..Therefore the nephrologist, must keep this in mind and advise patients that the risk of renal impairement induced by iodinated contrast media infusion, is exceedingly more elevated than the occurrence of Gd-induced NSF which is below 1%...

..The protective effect seemed to involve not only the kidney: the drug was found to induce a significant reduction of the necrotic area in myocardial infarction...

..Moreover, the differential diagnosis between other similar electrolyte-induced clinical disorders and GS is also discussed...

..In contrast, with the "trade off" hypothesis we did not observe any postprandial phosphate peak after the dietary load, and, in contrast with normal subjects, omeprazole administration did not influence the phosphate profile...

..The work experience, in particular the advantages and disavantages of public versus private environment, represents another important topic of this paper...

..Moreover, urinary excretion of IL-1 and IL-6 was done in the same interval by measuring the percentage of fractional excretion (FE%) of these cytokines...

..Therefore, septic patients who have a combination of pulmonary, cardio-vascular, renal and cerebral lesions present with the picture of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, that can increase mor-tality to > 0%...

..The aim of the present study was to assess whether pentraxin-3 (PTX3) could be a reliable biomarker of HD-induced inflammation and of membrane biocompatibility...

..Last but not least, abidance by hygienic measures may help in preventing cardiovascular and infectious complications...

..Therefore, to better understand their metabolic balance, we studied a group of diabetes patients on hemodialysis by a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system...

..The aim of the present study in HCV-positive (HCV+) HD patients is to determine whether HD induces the production of interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) and if such production can contribute to viremia reduction...

..Inhibitors of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) are useful in reversing microalbuminuria and can reduce proteinuria, but their efficacy in interfering with patient or graft survival is not demonstrated...

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..A number of new drugs, including rituximab, galactose and antifibrotic agents, are under investigation...

..9+/-13, L 32.1+/-12 mL/min). The results of this study indicate that HDF remains the best means of providing increased removal of large-molecular weight solutes even in patients with vascular access problems...