Asymptomatic urinary anomalies, hematuria and proteinuria, in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Preliminary studySilvia Velciov
Nephrology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:113-20. 2011
..One must also take into account the fact that urinary anomalies may also be related to administration of 5-aminosalicylates...
- Elements of renal injury in patients with erysipelas
Silvia Velciov
Nephrology, University of Medicine, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 48:179-85. 2010
..Association of proteinuria with hematuria was more frequent in patients with recurrent erysipelas. Patients with asymptomatic urinary abnormalities during the course of erysipelas need to be closely monitored during antibiotic treatment...
- Specifics of the renal abscess in nephrology: observations of a clinic from a county hospital in Western Romania
Silvia Velciov
Nephrology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:59-66. 2011
..Renal abscess was diagnosed and treated in the majority of cases in the Nephrology Department, and only in special cases is a referral to the Urology clinic required...
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate in patients with surgically acquired single kidney compared with patients with congenital single kidney: implications for kidney transplant from live donors
Florica Nicoleta Gadalean
Department of Nephrology, County Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Exp Clin Transplant 8:228-36. 2010
..This study sought to analyze the difference between surgically acquired single kidney and the congenital single kidney, regarding kidney function at a similar moment in time of the existence of a single kidney...
- Epidemiological data regarding Balkan endemic nephropathy in relationship with the Pliocene coal etiological hypothesis
Gh Gluhovschi
Nephrology Dept, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:11-24. 2011
..5% of the inhabitants of the endemic village Husnicioara (Pliocene coal mine still functioning). Our paper does not show any relationship between exposure to Pliocene coal and the etiology of BEN...
- Diabetic nephropathy and multiorgan protection. Part II
G Gluhovschi
Clinic of Nephrology, County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:237-49. 2011
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- Histological changes and immunohistochemical markers in the assessment of glomerulosclerosis in patients with glomerulonephritis
F R Bob
Department of Nephrology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Morphol Embryol 52:1027-32. 2011
..The result of these changes is represented by active lesions (mesangial matrix increase, mesangial cell proliferation) and chronic fibrotic lesions (glomerulosclerosis)...
- Cerebrovascular reactivity is impaired in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and microangiopathy
Ligia Petrica
Department of Nephrology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Wien Klin Wochenschr 119:365-71. 2007
..Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is a hemodynamic parameter representing the increase in normal cerebral artery blood flow in response to a vasodilatory stimulus such as hypercapnia...
- Elements of renal injury in patients with varicose ulcer. Preliminary study
Silvia Velciov
Nephrology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:202-6. 2011
..5 mg % to 2 mg %. Urinary abnormalities detected in patients with both acute and recurrent erysipelas warn about renal impairment and the need for monitoring of the renal patients with varicose ulcers...
What is the significance of CD34 immunostaining in the extraglomerular and intraglomerular mesangium?Cristina Gluhovschi
Division of Nephrology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy V Babes, Timisoara, Romania
Virchows Arch 453:321-8. 2008
..Our study shows the value of histological indices for evaluating GN but cannot assign significance to CD34 immunolabeling for the assessment of GN...
- The effect of steroids on lymphocyte profile in primary chronic glomerulonephritis. Empirical or tailored therapy?
Cristina Gluhovschi
University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania
Int Immunopharmacol 7:1265-70. 2007
..While our patients proved to be early non-responders, further studies to elucidate whether profile changes provide for response specification are warranted...
- Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis with particular perirenal and intrarenal extension associated with left renal artery stenosis. The atheromatous periaortitis with retroperitoneal fibrosis suggests a pathogenic relationship between atherosclerosis and f
Gheorghe Gluhovschi
Department of Nephrology, County Emergency Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Wien Klin Wochenschr 123:124-8. 2011
..This case, with chronic periaortitis subsequent to an extended aortic atherosclerosis with retroperitoneal fibrosis can be representative for the pathogenic relationship between atherosclerosis and fibrosis...
- Pioglitazone delays proximal tubule dysfunction and improves cerebral vessel endothelial dysfunction in normoalbuminuric people with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Ligia Petrica
Department of Nephrology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 94:22-32. 2011
..The renal and cerebral protective effects of pioglitazone were assessed in normoalbuminuric patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)...
- Diabetic nephropathy and multiorgan protection. Part I
G H Gluhovschi
Clinic of Nephrology, Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 49:163-77. 2011
..The second part presents the other protective measures used in diabetic nephropathy...
- Proximal tubule dysfunction is dissociated from endothelial dysfunction in normoalbuminuric patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study
Ligia Petrica
Department of Nephrology, County Emergency Hospital, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Nephron Clin Pract 118:c155-64. 2011
..The pattern of endothelial dysfunction and its potential variability was evaluated in two vascular beds, the kidney and the brain...
- Therapeutic remedies based on Aristolochia clematitis in the main foci of Balkan endemic nephropathy in Romania
Gheorghe Gluhovschi
Department of Nephrology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Nephron Clin Pract 116:c36-46. 2010
..There may be a relationship between BEN and cumulative previous exposure to low doses of AA due to the consumption of contaminated foodstuffs, which could add to any contributions by therapeutic remedies...
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension--a particular pathogenic model. Similarities with other forms of arterial hypertension
Gh Gluhovschi
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Emergency County Hospital, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 50:71-81. 2012
..The paper presents the particularities of pregnancy-induced hypertension, as well as its parallelism with other types of hypertension that are determined by organ ischaemia or that produce ablation of angiogenic factors...
- Immune compartments of the nephron in relation to the immune system
Gh Gluhovschi
Dept of Nephrology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 48:17-31. 2010
..These lymphoid follicle-like structures might represent an intrarenal immune system. The compartmentalization of the nephron is part of the recently described concept of compartmentalization of the immune system...
- The endothelial cell markers von Willebrand Factor (vWF), CD31 and CD34 are lost in glomerulonephritis and no longer correlate with the morphological indices of glomerular sclerosis, interstitial fibrosis, activity and chronicity
Cristina Gluhovschi
Division of Nephrology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy V Babeş Timişoara, Romania
Folia Histochem Cytobiol 48:230-6. 2010
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- Assessment of arterial stiffness in patients with CKD stage 5 when initiating chronic hemodialysis for vascular access and for preventing cardiovascular events
Ancuţa Mateş
Dialysis and Transplant Center, Timisoara, Romania
Rom J Intern Med 50:225-31. 2012
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- Cerebral microangiopathy in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Ligia Petrica
Department of Nephrology, County Emergency Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania
Ann Acad Med Singapore 36:259-66. 2007
..The aim of the study was to evaluate cerebral microangiopathy in type 2 noninsulin- dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients and to establish potentially conducive factors...
