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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2019

Adult minimal change disease with acute kidney injury: a case report and literature review.

P Daniel Nicholas, Ian Garrahy

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Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

P Daniel NicholasDepartment of Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Tower Health, West Reading, PA, USA.
Ian GarrahyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Tower Health, West Reading, PA, USA.
Reading Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Minimal Change Disease (MCD) is identified via renal biopsy as the etiology of nephrotic syndrome in a minority of adult cases; however, a significant proportion of these occurrences are accompanied by acute kidney injury (AKI). Risk factors for AKI in MCD include increased age, male sex, hypertension, and marked proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia. The etiology of AKI appears to be tubular injury as demonstrated with biomarkers, and although it is usually reversible with steroid therapy, resistance and relapses can occur and may require the use of second-line agents. We present a case of an adult patient with acute onset of biopsy-proven MCD and AKI demonstrating a partial response to corticosteroids and aggressive diuresis and later relapsing and requiring further immunosuppression with tacrolimus. Ultimately, further studies are required to determine the optimal treatment regimen for MCD to ensure remission and avoid relapse.

Indexed as

acute kidney injuryAdult minimal-change disease

Identifiers

PMID32002160
PMCPMC6968635
OpenAlexW2995383907

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