The significance of trace proteinuriaR Sam
Division of Nephrology, Cook County Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago and VAMC, West Side Division, Chicago, Ill 60612, USA
Am J Nephrol 23:438-41. 2003
..The clinical significance of a trace protein reading on urinalysis is unclear, and such a result is often ignored by the clinician...
- Lipoprotein glomerulopathy: a new apolipoprotein E mutation with enhanced glomerular binding
Ramin Sam
Division of Nephrology, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 47:539-48. 2006
..Apolipoprotein E genotyping by means of restriction endonuclease digestion of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genomic DNA showed it to be of the wild-type E3/E3...
- Sildenafil in dialysis patients
R Sam
Division of Nephrology, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Int J Artif Organs 29:264-8. 2006
..The literature on sildenafil in dialysis patients is here reviewed. Sildenafil seems to be both safe and effective in the treatment of sexual dysfunction in the dialysis population...
A case of lymphangioleiomyomatosis with membranous nephropathy and likely systemic lupusRamin Sam
Division of Nephrology, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave, Building 100, Rm 349, San Francisco, CA, 94110 1341, USA
Clin Exp Nephrol 13:166-9. 2009
..There were many pathological features and some clinical features that suggested the patient also suffered from systemic lupus erythematosus...
- Glomerular epithelial cells transform to myofibroblasts: early but not late removal of TGF-beta1 reverses transformation
Ramin Sam
Division of Nephrology, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Ill, USA
Transl Res 148:142-8. 2006
..It seems that TGF-beta(1) exposure progressively downregulates the EGF receptor on the membrane, rendering the cell refractory to EGF signals critical for maintaining the epithelial phenotype...
- Understanding hypernatremia
Ramin Sam
Division of Nephrology, San Francisco General Hospital, CA 94110 1341, USA
Am J Nephrol 36:97-104. 2012
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- Composition and clinical use of hemodialysates
Ramin Sam
Department of Medicine, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County and School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Hemodial Int 10:15-28. 2006
..The potential to enrich dialysates with appropriate ingredients (such as iron compounds) is limited only by the boundaries of our imagination...
- Determination of carbamylated hemoglobin by an enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) based on a novel antibody
Ashok K Singh
Clin Chim Acta 391:112-4. 2008
