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Correlation between cortico-medullary contrast (CMC) and dynamic CT or MRI for chronic renal parenchymal diseases was evaluated compared with serum creatinine level (Cr). Forty two kidneys of 23 patients were chronic glomerulonephritis (12), chronic pyelonephritis (12), chronic renal failure (4), and other diseases (14). Thirty two kidneys with low Cr (under 1.6) were demonstrated the good CMC by dynamic CT and T1-weighted image (IR) of 0.5 T. Six with middle of Cr (between 1.6 and 3.0) were showed a decrease in CMC and four with high Cr (over 3.0) had no CMC. CMC correlated with Cr.
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PMID:[Diagnostic value of the cortico-medullary contrast on dynamic CT and MRI in chronic renal parenchymal diseases]. 273 85

In connection with the analyses of 84 post-mortem examinations (47 men, 37 women, average age: 66.3 years) the author dealt with the renal complications of multiple myeloma. The signs of cylinder nephropathy, light-chain nephropathy, amyloidosis, nephrocalcinosis, urate nephropathy, acute renal insufficiency, renal vein thrombosis, acute and chronic pyelonephritis as well as the tumorous infiltration of the renal tissue have been sought for. The severity of the lesions were ranged into minimal, slight, moderate, and severe groups. On the basis of the semiquantitative morphological picture and the clinical data: 1. intact kidney (41 patients), 2. involvement of the kidney without azotemia (10 patients), 3. involvement of the kidney with azotemia (17 patients, serum creatinine level: greater than 177 mumol/l) and 4. renal involvement with chronic renal insufficiency associated with uremia (16 patients) were discerned. In the background of 33 cases (39%) with deteriorated renal function cylinder nephropathy was found most frequently (27 occasions) (32%). Every other complication occurred significantly less frequently e.g. amyloidosis or kappa-light-chain nephropathy occurred in 3 cases each.
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PMID:[Renal complications of multiple myeloma]. 279 87

We report a rare case of anomalous inferior vena cava (IVC) in a 46-year-old woman hospitalized for the examination of right hypofunctional kidney. She had no history of trauma or pyelonephritis and there were no abnormalities in laboratory findings except serum creatinine value. Excretory urography showed no excretion of contrast medium from right kidney and retrograde pyelography revealed moderate hydronephrosis of right kidney but the obstruction of the ureter was not recognized. Abdominal computed tomographic scan showed a total trace of IVC and inferior venacavography demonstrated complete obstruction of the IVC from its origin with collateralization of upper lumber veins and vertebral veins. Surgical exploration was performed and demonstrated that IVC was a trace from the postrenal segment to hepatic segment. Two right renal veins were draining into the upper lumber vein and the right ureter was compressed slightly by lower renal vein, dilated ovarian vein and fibrotic connective tissue.
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PMID:[A case of aplastic inferior vena cava with right hypofunctional kidney]. 281 21

Serum gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTP) and alpha-amylase clearance were determined in a total group of 90 patients of whom 60 with renal diseases and 30 with extrarenal diseases. The renal patients were distributed, according to diagnosis in the following groups: acute glomerulonephritis, chronic glomerulonephritis, acute pyelonephritis, chronic pyelonephritis, nephrotic syndrome and manifest chronic renal failure. The 30 controls were hospitalized for different extrarenal diseases such as: pneumonia, gastroduodenal ulcer, arterial hypertension stage I and angina pectoris. Serum GGTP assay was performed in 60 patients (40 renal patients and 20 controls) using Boehringer monotest kits and in 30 patients (20 renal patients and 10 controls) using Romanian kits (I.C.C.F.). No changes suggesting a particular type of nephropathy were observed. The results obtained by using the two types of kits for the serum GGTP assay have proved to be very close. Alpha-amylase clearance was determined in all the patients with Spofa (R.S.C.) tablets concomitantly with the urea and creatinine clearance. Important decreases of alpha-amylase clearance in concordance with decreases of urea and creatinine clearances were observed in all the patients with severe renal failure. More moderate decreases of alpha-amylase clearance were observed in the patients with acute and chronic glomerulonephritis. The utility of this clearance as a test of glomerular filtration and sometimes as a prognostic test, is discussed.
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PMID:Preliminary clinical and methodologic observations on the determination of serum gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase and of the alpha-amylase clearance in nephropathies. 286 37

The urinary enzymes alanine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2), alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1), gamma-glutamyltransferase (EC 2.3.2.2), N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (EC 3.2.1.30), and ribonuclease (EC 3.1.4.22) were measured in 66 healthy persons and 52 patients suffering from chronic renal diseases (pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis). The residual renal function of patients characterized by 99mTc-diethylenetriaminopentaacetate isotope clearance was only moderately reduced. Except for gamma-glutamyltransferase, patients generally showed increased urinary enzyme excretions. N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase was more sensitive to detect renal dysfunction than the other enzymes and the conventional parameters serum creatinine, total protein excretion, and the measurement of glomerular filtration rate. The determination of this enzyme can be recommended as a suitable diagnostic parameter in nephrology.
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PMID:Diagnostic significance of different urinary enzymes in patients suffering from chronic renal diseases. 289 Apr 51

In a consecutive material of 652 E. coli bacteremia 70 episodes (11%) were found in 64 patients with diabetes mellitus. 10 patients had insulin-dependent and 54 had non-insulin-dependent diabetes. The E. coli strains were tested for adhesive properties as mediated by P-fimbriae, a virulence factor in human urinary tract infections. Half of the strains were P-fimbriated with a higher occurrence in women (26/42, 62%) than in men (9/27, 33%). Diabetic patients with a positive urine culture had a higher incidence of P-fimbriated E. coli strains (27/37, 73%) in blood culture than patients with negative or no urine culture taken (8/32, 25%). Furthermore, patients without compromising factors, regardless of their diabetes mellitus, had a higher incidence of P-fimbriated E. coli strains (19/29, 66%) than those with malignancies and other debilitating diseases (6/22, 27%). The high incidence of P-fimbriated E. coli strains in the non-compromised patients may depend on the ability of such bacteria to invade the urinary tract and cause acute pyelonephritis, which often precedes E. coli bacteremia. A lower incidence of P-fimbriated E. coli strains was found in patients with proteinuria prior to the bacteremic episode (10/31, 32%), compared to those without proteinuria (25/35, 71%). No correlation was noted between P-fimbriation and duration of diabetes or serum creatinine. The low incidence of P-fimbriated E. coli strains in patients with proteinuria indicates that nephropathy, or some concurrent complication, predisposes the diabetic patient to bacteremia with low virulent, non-P-fimbriated E. coli.
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PMID:Bacteremia with P-fimbriated Escherichia coli in diabetic patients: correlation between proteinuria and non-P-fimbriated strains. 289 4

Unilateral pyelonephritis was induced in 50 rabbits by injecting Escherichia coli (minimum inhibitory concentration of tobramycin 0.25 mg/l) into the left kidney and by obstructing the ureter temporarily. Tobramycin treatment (daily dose 10 mg/kg) was started 4 days after surgery, either in a single daily dose or in 3 divided doses at 8 h intervals, for 2, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days. Comparison of bacteriology, renal morphology, and renal functions (BUN, serum creatinine, alanine aminopeptidase, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, cathepsin B, sphingomyelinase) suggests better efficacy and renal tolerance of the single daily dose regimen in the treatment of experimental acute pyelonephritis.
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PMID:Efficacy and safety of once daily versus intermittent dosing of tobramycin in rabbits with acute pyelonephritis. 289 6

In 19 urological patients with pyointoxication and urosepsis 49 plasmaphereses for the purpose of detoxication were performed in the complex with other therapeutic measures. The causes for the pyoseptic complications were as follows: urolithiasis in connection with acute pyelonephritis, acute pyelonephritis (among others in pregnancy, cystic renal dysplasia, carcinoma of the urinary bladder), renal insufficiency in the terminal stage. The treatment of these diseases with haemodialysis and haemoperfusion was complicated by a pyosepsis. Two methods of the plasmapheresis were used: the intermitting plasmapheresis with use of a refrigeration centrifuge K-70 (GDR) and the permanent membrane plasma separation with the device A2008 RG of the firm "Fresenius" (FRG). The plasma perfusion was experimentally proved and in 5 cases used on 5 columns with activated charcoal. The efficacy of the plasmapheresis and the plasma perfusion was apart from the clinical condition judged according to the values of the middle molecules in the blood, or urea, creatinine and the normalisation of the hypoproteinaemia as well as of the humoral immunity. To this are added the increase of diuresis, the normalisation of the haematological parameters and the bacteriological findings of blood and urine. Furthermore, several pathogenetic mechanisms of the positive effect of the plasmapheresis were analysed (mechanic removal of bacteria and their toxins, effect of "deplasmation" with tissue dehydration, improvement of the functional state of the kidneys within the first 3-4 days: reduction of the azotaemic intoxication, the DWS-syndrome, improvement of the rheological properties of the blood and of the microcirculation, increase of the antitoxic function of the liver).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Plasmapheresis in the complex therapy of patients with acute pyelonephritis and urologic infection]. 294 10

To determine the long-term prognosis for hypertension control, mortality, renal function, and maintenance of renal blood flow in patients operated on to control renovascular hypertension, we studied 60 patients managed surgically between 1969 and 1984. Thirty-six patients had atherosclerotic disease, 22 had fibromuscular dysplasia, one had neurofibromatosis, and one had a combination of atherosclerosis and pyelonephritis. We confined the analysis to the 58 patients with pure atherosclerosis or fibromuscular dysplasia. In the atherosclerosis group 14 patients died and the results of hypertension control in the remaining 22 were classified as cured, three (14%); improved, 15 (68%); failed, one (5%); and unknown, three (14%). In the fibromuscular dysplasia group one patient died and results of hypertension control in the remaining 21 patients were (1) cured, 10 (48%); improved, 10 (48%); and failed, one (5%). The 5- and 10-year survival rates were 79% and 40%, respectively, for the atherosclerosis group and 95% and 89%, respectively, for the fibromuscular dysplasia group. Renal function was well maintained for patients in both groups. The mean serum creatinine value was 1.4 mg/dl in the atherosclerosis group and 1.0 mg/dl in the fibromuscular dysplasia group. To evaluate the effect of operation on the maintenance of renal blood flow we compared the blood flow of the operated and unoperated sides in patients who had a unilateral operation and had a second kidney for comparison. Eight of these patients had scans in each of the two groups.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Long-term prognosis of surgical treatment of renovascular hypertension: a fifteen-year experience. 308 37

40 patients with arterial hypertension II stage, 51 patients with chronic pyelonephritis and glomerulonephritis and a control group of IO healthy persons were examined during a free from medicamentous treatment period by a group of clearance tests in order to study the excretory system function and the degree of its affection in the earliest phases of the diseases studied. By means of the isotopic clearances of 169Yb-EDTA for determinations of the glomerular filtration, 131-I-hippuran for effective renal plasma circulation, the electrolytic clearances of Na, K, Ca, Cl and creatinine, the volume of the water excretion and the lithium clearance, the degree of the renal lesion was determined in every patient examined by the deviations from the normal values and the role of the different nephron sections as well. The results of the study revealed that the best tests for evaluation of the renal function in chronic renal diseases are the electrolyte clearances of Na, K, Ca, Cl, and in arterial hypertension--the lithium clearance.
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PMID:[A comparison of the diagnostic reliability of the results of isotopic and routine clearance studies in essential and symptomatic hypertension]. 313 28


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