THE earliest lesions of certain types of experimental nephrocalcinosis involve the distal portions of the renal tubules and the collecting ducts. 1,2 Disturbances in renal tubular function might ...

Renal tubular acidosis may signal subclinical kidney involvement in patients with mutations in the TTR gene, according to new research. Some 18.3% of the symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with TTR ...

SARS-CoV-2-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the more frequently encountered organ involvements in COVID-19 - in as many as 80% of critically ill patients, according to a recent study.

Renal tubular dysgenesis has been reported in isolated cases of neonatal hemochromatosis (NH). We hypothesized that fetal liver injury in NH impairs proximal renal tubular development via impaired ...

Fanconi syndrome is a condition that affects the proximal renal tubule in the kidney and impairs the organ’s ability to reabsorb substances before they are excreted in the urine. The proximal tubule ...

SARS-CoV-2-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the more frequently encountered organ involvements in COVID-19 - in as many as 80% of critically ill patients, according to a recent study [2] ...