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1. Primary Aldosteronism: Diagnostic Accuracy of the Losartan and Captopril Tests

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Kao-Lang Liu, Bor-Sen Hsieh, Kuo-How Huang, Vin-Cent Wu, H. Chang, Wei-Chou Lin, Shih-Chieh Chueh, Shuo-Meng Wang, Chih-Kang Chiang, Kwan-Dun Wu, Yung-Ming Chen, Shao-Yu Yang, Yen-Hung Lin, Yi-Luwn Ho, and Jeng-Wen Huang

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Captopril, Taiwan, Urology, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Losartan, Cohort Studies, Diagnosis, Differential, chemistry.chemical_compound, Primary aldosteronism, McNemar's test, Internal medicine, Hyperaldosteronism, Internal Medicine, medicine, Humans, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Aldosterone, business.industry, Reproducibility of Results, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Angiotensin II, Endocrinology, ROC Curve, chemistry, Area Under Curve, ACE inhibitor, Female, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, business, Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers, medicine.drug
Abstract

Background To assess whether angiotensin-II receptor blockers (ARBs) offer any additional advantage in confirming the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA) and their use in the differentiation of PA subtypes. Methods A prospective, cohort, head-to-head study was conducted between July 2003 and July 2006. A total of 135 patients received captopril and losartan tests to confirm the diagnosis of PA in the TAIPAI (Taiwan Primary Aldosteronism Investigation) intervention. Results In total, 71 patients were diagnosed with PA. The area under the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve of the postcaptopril plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) was significantly less than that of the postlosartan PAC (0.744 vs. 0.829, P = 0.038). Using an aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR, ng/dl per ng/ml/h) >35 with a PAC >10 ng/dl, the specificity was 89.1% vs. 93.8% and the sensitivity was 66.2% vs. 84.5 % for the captopril test vs. the losartan test, respectively. With respect to the losartan test, the accuracy was 88.9%, the agreement was good (k = 0.778), and there was no disagreement with the McNemar test (P = 0.118). Losartan had the advantage of a better negative predictive value to exclude PA when patients were referred with a serum potassium (SK) level 60 was the cutoff value, the positive predictive value was 82% with a negative predictive value of 57% in distinguishing aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) from idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IHA). Conclusions The postlosartan ARR and PAC were shown to have better accuracy for the diagnosis of PA than the captopril test. With a postlosartan ARR >60, APAs can be adequately differentiated from IHA.

Published
2009

2. Higher systemic inflammation is associated with poorer sleep quality in stable haemodialysis patients

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Hung Yuen Chen, Tun-Jun Tsai, Ju Yeh Yang, Yu Sen Peng, Kwan-Dun Wu, Yi-Fang Chuang, Shih Kai Liu, Yen-Ling Chiu, Kai Chi Fang, and Mei Fen Pai

Subjects
Adult, Male, Sleep Wake Disorders, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Interleukin-1beta, Systemic inflammation, Gastroenterology, Phosphates, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Hemoglobins, chemistry.chemical_compound, Renal Dialysis, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Triglycerides, Aged, Inflammation, Transplantation, Sleep disorder, Sleep quality, Triglyceride, biology, business.industry, C-reactive protein, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, C-Reactive Protein, Endocrinology, chemistry, Nephrology, biology.protein, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Female, Hemodialysis, medicine.symptom, Sleep, business, Kidney disease
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Background. Increased inflammation has been noted in sleep disorder patients with normal renal function. However, the relationship between sleep quality and circulating inflammatory markers has not been previously studied in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Methods. A total of 114 HD end-stage renal disease patients receiving maintenance HD for >3 months were included in this study. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to measure individual’s sleep quality. Based on the global PSQI score, patients were divided into groups of good sleepers (PSQI < 5) and bad sleepers (PSQI ≥ 5). Results. Twenty-three patients (20.2%) were classified as good sleepers and 91 patients (79.8%) were bad sleepers. Bad sleepers have significantly higher serum hsCRP level and lower serum phosphate level (all P < 0.05). The global PSQI score, or worse sleep quality are positively correlated with serum triglyceride level, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein(hsCRP)level,IL-1βlevelandnegativelycorrelated with the haemoglobin and phosphate level. In the multivariable linear regression model, levels of hsCRP (β = 0.209, P = 0.029) and triglyceride (β = 0.212, P = 0.025) were both significant independent predictors for the global PSQI score. Conclusion. Our study demonstrated severe impairment of sleep quality in HD patients and corroborated the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of sleep disturbance.

Published
2008

3. Bilateral aldosterone-producing adenomas: differentiation from bilateral adrenal hyperplasia

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Hung-Yuan Li, Yen-Hung Lin, Kwan-Dun Wu, Shih-Chieh Chueh, Vin-Cent Wu, Kao-Lang Liu, Wei-Chou Lin, H. Chang, and Bor-Shen Hsieh

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Adenoma, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.drug_class, medicine.medical_treatment, education, Urology, Secondary hypertension, Plasma renin activity, chemistry.chemical_compound, Primary aldosteronism, Adrenal Glands, Hyperaldosteronism, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Aldosterone, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Hyperplasia, business.industry, Adrenalectomy, Captopril, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms, Surgery, Radiography, chemistry, Mineralocorticoid, Case-Control Studies, Female, business, psychological phenomena and processes, medicine.drug
Abstract

Background: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a common curable disease of secondary hypertension. Most such patients have either idiopathic bilateral adrenal hyperplasia (BAH) or unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA). Bilateral APAs are reportedly extremely rare. Aim: To compare the distinctive characteristics, clinical course, and outcomes of bilateral APA vs. BAH. Design: Retrospective record review. Methods: From July 1994 to Jan 2007, 190 patients diagnosed with PA underwent surgical intervention at our hospital. Bilateral APA was diagnosed in 7/164 patients with histologically-proven APA. Twenty-one patients diagnosed as BAH, and 21 randomly selected of unilateral APA patients, matched by age and sex served as controls. Results: Patients with bilateral APA had similar blood pressure, arterial blood gas analysis, spot urinary potassium to creatinine ratio and clinical symptoms to those with BAH, but lower serum potassium levels ( p = 0.027), lower plasma renin activity ( p = 0.037), and higher plasma aldosterone concentrations ( p = 0.029). Aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) after administration of 50 mg captopril was higher in bilateral APA than in BAH patients ( p = 0.023), but not different between unilateral APA and BAH ( p = 0.218). A cut-off of ARR >100 ng/dl per ng/ml/h and plasma aldosterone >20 ng/dl after captopril significantly differentiated bilateral APA from BAH. Bilateral subtotal adrenalectomy normalized blood pressure and biochemistry in all patients with bilateral APA. Discussion: Bilateral APA, presenting simultaneously or sequentially, may not be a rare disease, accounting for 4.3% of APA in this sample. The clinical presentations of bilateral functional adenoma are not different from BAH, but patients with low serum potassium and ARR >100 after captopril should be carefully evaluated for bilateral adenoma.

Published
2007

4. The association of higher depressive symptoms and sexual dysfunction in male haemodialysis patients

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Yu-Sen Peng, Kung-Yu Hung, Ru-Ping Lin, Wang-Yu Chen, Shou-Shang Chiang, Kwan-Dun Wu, Chin-Ching Yang, Chwei-Shiun Yang, Tun-Jun Tsai, Chia-Sheng Lu, Chee-Jen Chang, and Chih-Kang Chiang

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, SF-36, Cross-sectional study, Taiwan, Patient satisfaction, Quality of life, Renal Dialysis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Internal medicine, Prevalence, medicine, Humans, Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological, Depression (differential diagnoses), Transplantation, Depression, business.industry, Beck Depression Inventory, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Cross-Sectional Studies, Sexual dysfunction, Patient Satisfaction, Nephrology, Quality of Life, Kidney Failure, Chronic, medicine.symptom, business, Kidney disease
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Background The prevalence of sexual dysfunction among male haemodialysis patients is high. Sexual dysfunction is composed of both physiological and psychological factors. However, the role of psychological depression is still obscure. Methods A multicentre cross-sectional study of 411 male haemodialysis patients was conducted to define the determinants of sexual dysfunction. Mid-week pre-dialytic biochemical and haematological parameters were obtained. All patients were required to complete three questionnaires by themselves: (i) the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF, Chinese version); (ii) the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, Chinese version) and (iii) the 36-item Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36, Taiwan Standard Version 1.0). Results In total, 154 male patients completed the IIEF questionnaire. Their mean age was 50.2 +/- 10.7 years. A linear multivariable regression analysis demonstrated advanced age, diabetes and the presence of depressive symptoms to be independently associated with sexual dysfunction. Subjects with sexual dysfunction had significantly lower quality of life scores. Conclusions The presence of depressive symptoms, highly prevalent in haemodialysis patients, is an independent factor of sexual dysfunction in male haemodialysis patients. In a comprehensive approach to the management of sexual dysfunction, a thorough evaluation of psychological depression must be included.

Published
2007

5. Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Turkey Deli Meat and Subsequent Changes in US Regulatory Policy

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Kwan-Dun Wu, Yu-Ting Wang, I.-Jung Tsai, Po-Ren Hsueh, Juey-Jen Hwang, Cheng-Yi Wang, and Vin-Cent Wu

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Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Anemia, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Tolerability, Internal medicine, Severity of illness, medicine, Hemodialysis, Risk factor, business, Kidney disease, Antibacterial agent
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BACKGROUND Data about the efficacy and tolerability of linezolid for the treatment of gram-positive bacterial infections in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are lacking. METHODS This retrospective case-control study compared the tolerability and efficacy of linezolid therapy for patients with ESRD and patients with non-end-stage renal disease (NESRD), all of whom had gram-positive bacterial infections. RESULTS There were 58 men and 33 women enrolled in the study, with a mean age of 61.5 years (range, 45.4-81.2 years). Among these patients, 28 (30.8%) were receiving hemodialysis at the start of linezolid treatment. The ESRD group had a higher percentage of patients with diabetes mellitus (57.1% vs. 33.3%; P = .029) and an older mean age (+/-SD) (72.1 +/- 10.8 years vs. 56.8 +/- 20.4 years; P < .001), compared with the NESRD group. Severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count, < 100 x 10(9) platelets/L) and anemia were significantly more frequent in the ESRD group, compared with the NESRD group (78.6% vs. 42.9% [P = .003] and 71.4% vs. 36.5% [P = .003], respectively). The independent risk factors for thrombocytopenia identified by logistic regression analysis were pretreatment disease severity score (odds ratio [OR], 1.34; 95%, confidence interval [CI], 1.13-1.60; P = .001), central catheter-related infection (OR, 4.96; 95% CI, 1.08-22.73; P = .046), and ESRD (OR, 6.14; 95% CI, 1.63-23.26; P = .007). ESRD was the only independent risk factor for anemia (OR, 4; 95% CI, 1.50-10.64; P = .006). Survival analysis for the development of thrombocytopenia or death showed significant differences between patients with ESRD and patients with NESRD (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS The lower tolerability of linezolid in patients with ESRD, compared with those with NESRD, is evidenced by the higher rates of thrombocytopenia and anemia in the former group. The severity of these conditions necessitates treatment discontinuation for patients with ESRD more often than for patients with NESRD.

Published
2006

6. Factors associated with increased plasma homocysteine in patients using an amino acid peritoneal dialysis fluid

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Tzong-Shinn Chu, Pei-Lun Chu, Kai-Yao Shih, Jenq-Wen Huang, Shao-Yu Yang, Kwan-Dun Wu, and Shih-Ping Hsu

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Homocysteine, medicine.medical_treatment, Hyperhomocysteinemia, Taiwan, Serum albumin, Renal function, Aspartate transaminase, Kidney Function Tests, Risk Assessment, Severity of Illness Index, Statistics, Nonparametric, Peritoneal dialysis, chemistry.chemical_compound, Insulin resistance, Dialysis Solutions, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Single-Blind Method, Prospective Studies, Amino Acids, Probability, Transplantation, Methionine, biology, business.industry, Leptin, Malnutrition, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Treatment Outcome, Endocrinology, chemistry, Nephrology, biology.protein, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Female, business, Peritoneal Dialysis, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract

Although amino acid peritoneal dialysate (AAPD) substitution is thought to improve protein-energy malnutrition in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD), it may also increase plasma homocysteine (Hcy) levels due to the methionine load in the dialysate. However, it is still unclear which factors are important for elevating Hcy in patients treated with AAPD.Sixteen malnourished PD patients (age 48+/-18 years) were treated daily with one exchange of 1.1% AAPD for 3 months. The effects of AAPD on nutrition, Hcy, methionine, leptin and insulin resistance were studied. We also analysed factors that influenced plasma Hcy levels.We found a transient increase in serum albumin (P0.01) after 1 month treatment, especially in patients with serum albuminor = 3.5 g/dl. Total plasma Hcy increased markedly after AAPD (the peak at month 2, P0.001) and returned to baseline after ceasing AAPD, despite no changes in dietary methionine intake and serum methionine levels. Eight patients with Hcy increments5.65 microM (the median) had lesser dietary intakes of protein (P = 0.01) and methionine (P = 0.028), lower body fat mass (P = 0.05) and lower aspartate transaminase (AST) (P = 0.008) before AAPD treatment than patients with lower increments. DeltaHcy was inversely correlated with baseline dietary methionine intake (r = -0.61), protein intake (r = -0.54) and AST (r = -0.51) (all P0.05). There was no change in leptin or insulin resistance. AAPD treatment significantly increased Kt/Vurea (P0.001), weekly creatinine clearance (P0.05) and peritoneal glucose transport (P0.05).Treatment with 1.1% AAPD transiently increased serum albumin in malnourished PD patients. However, the methionine load from the dialysate in this study significantly elevated plasma Hcy levels, especially in patients with lower protein and methionine intakes, and lower AST levels. Further long-term studies will be needed to clarify potential nutritional benefits and adverse effects of AAPD.

Published
2004

7. Dopaminergic modulation of aldosterone secretions on changes of sodium intake in aldosterone-producing adenoma1

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Yung-Ming Chen, Tzong-Shinn Chu, Gen-Chen Tsai, Kwan-Dun Wu, Bor-Shen Hsieh, Yung-Zu Tseng, and Shih-Chieh Chueh

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medicine.medical_specialty, Kidney, Aldosterone, business.industry, Adrenal gland, Dopaminergic, medicine.disease, Hyperaldosteronism, Excretion, chemistry.chemical_compound, Primary aldosteronism, medicine.anatomical_structure, Endocrinology, chemistry, Internal medicine, Internal Medicine, Medicine, Salt intake, business
Abstract

Background Impairment of renal dopamine excretion on high-salt diet (HS) may account for increased blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive subjects. Whether such impairment of dopaminergic activity exists in the adrenal gland is unknown. The purpose of this study was to differentiate degrees of dopaminergic inhibition of aldosterone secretion in patients with aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA). Methods A total of 15 patients with unilateral APA were fed a low-salt diet (LS) for 1 week, followed by another week on HS. At the end of each diet period, 24-h ambulatory BP recording, daily urine catecholamine measurement, and a metoclopramide test were performed. Results A high-salt diet increased both daytime and nighttime BP (P Conclusions Two subtypes of APA were defined according to their responses to metoclopramide during salt manipulation. On HS, the nonsuppressible subjects, with less dopaminergic inhibition of aldosterone secretion, had less urinary DA excretion and greater BP elevation. The renal and adrenal dopaminergic activities are regulated in a parallel fashion.

Published
2002

9. Comparison of infectious complications in peritoneal dialysis patients using either a twin‐bag system or automated peritoneal dialysis

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Tun-Jun Tsai, Kwan-Dun Wu, Chung-Jen Yen, Jenq-Wen Huang, and Kuan-Yu Hung

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, medicine.medical_treatment, Peritonitis, Infections, Lower risk, Peritoneal dialysis, Automation, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Proportional Hazards Models, Transplantation, Proportional hazards model, business.industry, Incidence, Incidence (epidemiology), Equipment Design, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Automated peritoneal dialysis, Nephrology, cardiovascular system, Female, Dialisis peritoneal, Complication, business, Peritoneal Dialysis
Abstract

Background. Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) and twin-bag (TB) systems are two major peritoneal dialysis (PD) modalities. Published data comparing the infectious complications of these modalities is limited. Subjects and methods. Ninety-five patients using APD (the APD group) and 117 patients using TB system (the TB group) were recruited. Among them, 35 patients used both modalities. The two groups' clinical characteristics, incidences of infectious complications, and the time intervals to first PD-related infection were compared. Results. Clinical characteristics, incidence of exit-site infection (ESI), and time intervals to first ESI were similar in the TB and APD groups. The incidence of peritonitis in the APD group (1.22 episodes 100 patient-months) was significantly (P

Published
2001

10. Lack of evidence for an association between -adducin and blood pressure regulation in Asian populations

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Richard A. Olshen, David Botstein, Mau-Song Chang, Neil Risch, Koustubh Ranade, David R. Cox, David Curb, Joan M. Hebert, Agnes Chao Hsuing, Ying-Tsung Chen, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Kwan-Dun Wu, and Victor J. Dzau

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Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Population, Mongoloid, Essential hypertension, medicine.disease, Endocrinology, Blood pressure, Polymorphism (computer science), Internal medicine, Genotype, Internal Medicine, medicine, Allele, education, business, Allele frequency
Abstract

Recent studies have found the tryptophan allele of a glycine to tryptophan polymorphism at position 460 (G460W) of the alpha-adducin protein to be associated with essential hypertension in European populations. We examined whether the tryptophan allele is associated with hypertension in a different population, comprised of subjects of Chinese origin from Taiwan, and Chinese and Japanese origin from the San Francisco Bay area and Hawaii. We adapted the 5' allelic discrimination assay or TaqMan to type individuals for the G460W polymorphism, and using this method we typed more than 1000 individuals. The frequency of the W allele was slightly increased in the treated subjects in the Chinese population (0.458 v 0.423) but not the Japanese population (0.549 v 0.558). We considered dominant, recessive, and additive models in our analysis. There was a significant result for a recessive model for systolic blood pressure in the Chinese population (chi2 6.84, df = 2, P < .05), but only suggestive evidence for diastolic blood pressure (chi2 3.30). In contrast, in the Japanese population, there was no evidence for a positive association under any model. For the combined Chinese and Japanese samples, the evidence for association with alpha-adducin was not significant.

Published
2000

11. FP327RENAL OUTCOMES OF CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS VERSUS THIAZIDE DIURETICS AS ADD-ON TREATMENTS FOR USERS OF RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM BLOCKERS: A NATIONWIDE COHORT STUDY

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Kwan-Dun Wu, Ming-Shiou Wu, Kuo-Liong Chien, Chih-Kang Chiang, Yu-Sen Peng, Jenq-Wen Huang, Hon-Yen Wu, and Kuan-Yu Hung

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Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Nephrology, business.industry, Calcium channel, Renin–angiotensin system, Urology, Medicine, business, Thiazide, medicine.drug, Cohort study
Published
2015

12. Revised cutoff values of serum aminotransferase in detecting viral hepatitis among CAPD patients: experience from Taiwan, an endemic area for hepatitis B

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Chung-Jen Yen, Tun-Jun Tsai, K C Lee, Kwan-Dun Wu, Wan-Yu Chen, and Kuan-Yu Hung

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Hepatitis C virus, medicine.medical_treatment, Population, Taiwan, medicine.disease_cause, Sensitivity and Specificity, Gastroenterology, Peritoneal dialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Cutoff, Aspartate Aminotransferases, education, Aged, Transplantation, education.field_of_study, Hepatitis B Surface Antigens, business.industry, Alanine Transaminase, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis C Antibodies, Middle Aged, Hepatitis B, medicine.disease, ROC Curve, Nephrology, Immunology, Female, Viral disease, business, Viral hepatitis
Abstract

To determine the best cutoff values of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine amino-transferase (ALT) in detecting viral hepatitis C infection among patients of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).90 (44 male and 46 female) CAPD patients and 526 adult controls (266 male, 260 female) were enrolled. Serum AST and ALT were measured by an auto-analyser monthly. Serum HBsAg was examined using a RIA method and anti-HCV by an second-generation EIA method. The best cutoff values of AST and ALT for detecting viral hepatitis were obtained from the ROC (receiver-operating characteristic) curve.The prevalence of anti-HCV(+) was significantly higher in CAPD patients (16.7%) than in normal controls (4.9%), while that of HBsAg(+) was similar in both groups. CAPD patients had significantly lower levels of serum aminotransferases compared to normal controls. Mean AST were 23.8 IU/l in normal control and 18.8 IU/l in the CAPD patients (P0.001). Mean ALT were 21.9 IU/l in normal controls and 15.3 IU/l in the CAPD patients (P0.001). CAPD patients with HCV infection had higher serum AST and ALT levels than those without. However, HBV infection did not cause significant serum aminotransferase elevation in patients. The conventional cutoff values of AST (40 IU/l) and ALT (40 IU/l) for detecting viral hepatitis yielded only a sensitivity of 27.3 and 18.2% respectively; on the contrary, our revised cutoff values of AST (24 IU/l) and ALT (17 IU/l) had better sensitivities (AST, 72.7%; ALT, 63.6%). For serial aminotransferase values, the sensitivity of AST and ALT for detecting HCV were 36.4 and 27.3% by conventional criteria, and were both 81.8%, by our newly revised criteria.Serum aminotransferase cutoff values should be modified for screening viral hepatitis in a CAPD population. Our new cutoff criteria had important clinical implications in providing benefits of earlier detection and possible prevention from chronic hepatic deteriorations.

Published
1997

13. Thoracic kidney and contralateral ureteral duplication—a case report and review of the literature

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Bor-Shen Hsieh, Kwan-Dun Wu, Chun-Fu Lai, Shuei-Liong Lin, Yung-Ming Chen, Wen-Chih Chiang, Horng-Chin Yan, and Ju-Yeh Yang

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medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Kidney, Diagnosis, Differential, Thoracic kidney, Humans, Ureteral Diseases, Medicine, Abnormalities, Multiple, Aged, Ultrasonography, Transplantation, business.industry, Urography, Thorax, medicine.disease, Surgery, Ureteral duplication, Nephrology, Female, Kidney Diseases, Radiography, Thoracic, Hemodialysis, Ureter, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Complication, business, Kidney disease
Published
2005

15. Post-acupuncture shoulder swelling

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S.-H. Chu, C.-H. Chang, Kwan-Dun Wu, and Shiu-Dong Chung

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musculoskeletal diseases, Right shoulder, Infection Control, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, Intermittent fever, business.industry, Soft Tissue Infections, Acupuncture Therapy, Physical examination, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Surgery, Tenderness, Shoulder Pain, Female patient, Acupuncture, medicine, Humans, Female, SHOULDER SWELLING, Swelling, medicine.symptom, business, human activities
Abstract

A 53-year-old female patient presented with severe right shoulder swelling with intermittent fever 2 weeks after acupuncture therapy to the right shoulder. The shoulder pain and swelling had worsened gradually and swelling started to extend into the arm. Physical examination revealed fever with tenderness over the right shoulder. Lab investigations showed elevated C-reactive protein. The shoulder radiographs revealed soft …

Published
2011

16. Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with minimal change disease

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Tun-Jun Tsai, Ming-Shiou Wu, Kwan-Dun Wu, Wei-Chou Lin, and Tai-Shuan Lai

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Primary biliary cirrhosis, Text mining, Nephrology, business.industry, Internal medicine, medicine, Minimal change disease, medicine.disease, business, Gastroenterology
Published
2007

18. Pseudohyperchloraemia due to bromvalerylurea abuse

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Shao-Yu Yang, Vin-Cent Wu, Kwan-Dun Wu, Cheng-Chung Fang, and Yu-Ting Wang

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Transplantation, Traditional medicine, Nephrology, business.industry, Urea blood, MEDLINE, Medicine, business, Urea urine
Published
2005

19. Twenty-four hour urine aldosterone level predicts left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with primary aldosteronism and essential hypertension

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K.D.W. Kwan-Dun Wu, M.J.S. Ming-Jai Suii, S.C.C. Shih-Chieh Chueh, Y.L.H. Yi-Lwun Ho, M.F.C. Ming-Fon Chen, Y.H.L. Yen-Hung Lin, V.C.W. Vin-Cent Wu, and C.-S. Hung

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medicine.medical_specialty, Aldosterone, business.industry, Urine, Left ventricular hypertrophy, medicine.disease, Essential hypertension, Plasma renin activity, Conn Adenoma, chemistry.chemical_compound, Primary aldosteronism, chemistry, Internal medicine, Renin–angiotensin system, medicine, Cardiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Objectives: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is associated with inappropriate left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in relation to a given gender and body size. Currently, there is no ideal parameter to predict the presence of LVH or inappropriate LVH in patients with primary aldosteronism. We investigate the performance of 24 hour urinary aldosterone level, plasma renin activity and aldosterone-to-renin ratio on this task. Materials and methods: We performed echocardiography in 106 patients with primary aldosteronism and 31 subjects with essential hypertension (EH) in a tertiary teaching hospital. Plasma renin activity, aldosterone concentration and 24-hour urinary aldosterone level were measured. In order to identify LVH, we compared four parameters: 24-hour urinary aldosterone, plasma aldosterone concentration, plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone-to-renin ratio urinary aldosterone. Results: In a correlation study of both groups, only 24-hour urinary aldosterone correlated with left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and additional LVMI among the four parameters. The multivariate analysis revealed that the urinary aldosterone level was an independent predictor for LVMI and additional LVMI. The receiver operating characteristic analysis to assess the ability of urinary aldosterone, plasma aldosterone concentration and plasma aldosterone-to-renin ratio to identify the presence of LVH (ROC AUC=0.701, 0.568, 0.656, respectively) and the presence of inappropriate LV mass index (defined as: measured LVMI to predicted LVMI ratio > 135%) (ROC area under curve = 0.61, 0.43, 0.493, respectively) revealed the better performance of 24-hour urinary aldosterone in the PA group. The same phenomenon was also noted in the EH group. Conclusion: In conclusion, 24-hour urinary aldosterone level performed better than plasma aldosterone or aldosterone-to-renin ratio to predict the presence of LVH and inappropriate LVMI in patients with primary aldosteronism.

Published
2013

20. Mannitol-induced acute renal failure

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Shuei-Liong Lin, Kuan-Yu Hung, Shu-Chen Wei, Kwan-Dun Wu, and Fe-Lin Lin Wu

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Urology, medicine.disease, Nephropathy, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Internal medicine, Toxicity, medicine, Mannitol, business, medicine.drug
Published
1995

21. Metabolic and other complications of ESRD - 1

Author

Naoko Miwa, Latifa Hanafi, Sandra N. Nunes, Adnan Mourad, Massimiliano Migliori, Karin Mienert, Shuzo Kobayashi, Seyit Mehmet Kayacan, Rolfdieter Krause, Visith Thongboonkerd, Zoubiair Ghais, Naoki Kimata, Elena Gutierrez, Lilimar S. Rioja, Nurhan Koksal, Malika Souiri, Giovanna Luciani, Yukari Asamiya, Jamshid Roozbeh, Kimiko Otsubo, Luca Giovannini, Tsutomu Tabata, Kimio Tomita, Arjinder S. Bains, Yves Vanrenterghem, Alvaro Molina Ordas, Akhil Bhargava, Ghanbarali Raeesjalali, Muhammad Imran, Machiko Oka, Mehmet Sayarlioglu, C. Barbulescu, Martina Reslerova, Silvana Kesrouani, Vincenzo Panichi, Radhakrishnan Jayan, Kan Kikuchi, Simeon Antonov, Fernando Alvarez-Ude Cotera, Mohamed Gharbi Benghanem, Won Ki Min, Thomas Kistler, Donata Scribano, Shih-Ping Hsu, Tomoya Hirayama, Claudio Mannari, Aleksandar Sikole, Anirban Ganguli, Pavlina Dzekova-Vidimliski, Sônia M. H. A. Araújo, Manish M. Sood, Pramod K. Guru, Daniel Aerne, Hans Rudolf Räz, Bernard Jones, Mei-Fen Pai, Naoyuki Hasebe, Bhanu Prasad, Sanjay Gupta, Michal Mysliwiec, Fabiana B.S. Fuck, Paul Trevillian, Kristin Verbeke, Omar R. Santos, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Takashi Akiba, Visweswar Reddy Pachipala, Pieter Evenepoel, Hayriye Sayarlioglu, Arjuna PonnamPalam, Astrid Rodriguez Gomez, Jeong Jin Lee, Rui Alberto Gomes, Ryusuke Kakiya, Debora Ferrer, Dilek Kayacan, Ghizlane Medkouri, Sanjay K. Agarwal, Yves Straub, Raha Afshariani, Masaaki Inaba, Jolanta Malyszko, Chun-Fu Lai, Lisa Miller, Yen-Lin Chiu, Paul Komenda, Karima Cheddadi, Patricia Frias, Juan Fernandez-Gallego, Naoko Tatsumi, Bahar Bastani, S. Stancu, Oliviu Pascu, Pius Tansinda, Syuitsu Ueda, Ekrem Dogan, Mustafa Gul, Eiji Kimoto, Mehmet Ali Ucar, Elisa Checchi, Jeevinesh Naidu, R. Fagaras, Gulsen Selim, Manuel Heras Benito, E. Rus, Keiko Uchida, Carmen Covelo, Ju-Yeh Yang, Hideki Tahara, Vili Amitov, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher, Patricia Wahl, Jesus Bustamante, Marcos Lelio Maximo, Maurizio Bossola, Momir Polenakovic, Delia Bunea-Jivanescu, Juan F. Macias-Nuñez, Rudolf P. Wüthrich, Sumi Hidaka, Rosa Sanchez Hernandez, Martin Matejovic, Kyoung Hyoub Moon, Joe Bueti, Bert Bammens, Christoph Etter, Pavlina Richtrova, Lucas A. Nepomuceno, Jacek S. Malyszko, Elena Silvano, Calin Bunea-Jivanescu, Fátima C.M. Pelarigo, Masanori Emoto, Ranjit Nanra, Suresh Chand Tiwari, Benyounes Ramdani, José M. López-Novoa, Patrice M. Ambühl, Yu-Sen Peng, Takayasu Ohtake, G. Tardei, Bruce Lang, Vicky De Preter, Pedro Felipe Carvalhedo de Bruin, Kosaku Nitta, Takamichi Nakamura, Giselly G.L.C. Pacheco, Kung-Yu Hung, Mohammad Mahdi Sagheb, Erik Philipp, Khadija Hachim, Arben Asani, Mohamed Zamd, Sérgio Henrique Caetano, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Luiz Paulo José Marques, Alfredo Stefani, Shigeru Otsubo, Hung-Yuan Chen, Hans-Jakob Gloor, Stefania Giungi, Kenjiro Kikuchi, Maryam Sharifian, Luigi Tazza, Miwa Ichihara, Gabriella Moltine, C. Sintimbreanu, Hidekazu Moriya, Alastair Gillies, Mumtaz Kerim Tahta, Shoko Tsuchikura, Bonnie Geall, Hans-Hellmut Neumayer, Hideo Hirayama, Denes Kiss, Björn Meijers, Galina Severova-Andreevska, Kenichiro Kitamura, Naoki Nakagawa, Lada Trajceska, L. Petrescu, Canan Eren Dagli, Amy R. Sood, Jan Mares, Piotr Kozminski, Kengo Kajiwara, Hae Hyuk Jung, Zdenek Tuma, Sawako Hatsuda, Jae Young Kang, M. Penescu, Cory Lang, Ryota Ikee, Veralice Meireles Sales de Bruin, Hisayuki Sugimoto, Yoon Ji Kim, Claudio Rigatto, Pierpaolo Borgatti, Eiji Ishimura, G. Mircescu, Maria Jose Fernandez-Reyes Luis, S Carney, Hidenori Koyama, Jenner Cruz, Soon Bae Kim, Kwan-Dun Wu, JoséEduardo Cavalcanti Teixeira, Hameed Anijeet, Diana Yonova, Nikola Stojcev, Akira Hata, Hironori Ishida, Saso Gelev, Yoshiki Nishizawa, Giovanni Lindner, Tetsuo Shoji, Murat Şahin, Gilson Holanda Almeida, Peter Geisser, Munemasa Tajiri, Hyun Kee Lee, Lucio Manenti, Poopak Mohaghegh Zadeh, Jin Uk Jeong, and Jung Sik Park

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Nephrology, business.industry, medicine, Intensive care medicine, business
Published
2009

22. Acute renal failure - clinical studies - 2

Author

Irena Dolgoker, Xiuling Chen, Renata Heck, Anousheh Haghighi, Seong Gyun Kim, A.A. House, Shriganesh Barnela, Sudarshan Ballal, Horng Ruey Chua, W.Y. Kong, Duaa Aresmouk, Carlo Guastoni, Ha Young Oh, Soo Bong Lee, Vishwanath Billa, Lucian Jiga, Christoforos Giannaki, Oon Cheong Ooi, Gopalkishan Adikey, Shinya Ikematsu, Fred Lai, Christina Karatzaferi, Shukun Wu, Catherine S. Forster, Cetin Turgan, J.S. Sekhon, A.S. Dayanand, T.C. Keng, Mansour Jannati, Dae-Eun Choi, A. Brendolan, Chew Ming Wong, Kajohnsak Noppakun, Hilmi Ozkutlu, Thaís Gonçalves, Jordana de Fraga Guimarães, Ji Eun Oh, Jun Ma, Florian Thilo, Adalbert Schiller, L.P. Tan, Boon Wee Teo, So Yeon Park, R.N. Sahoo, Soo Jin Kim, Batya Kristal, Katarzyna Szamotulska, Amish Dilip Patel, Xiaonong Chen, Hyung Jik Kim, Hany Yassa, Martin Tepel, Ling Qin, Ki Ryang Na, Giovanni Seveso, Wooseong Huh, Scott O. Grebe, F. Nalesso, Pierre-Yves Martin, Belen Ponte, Rahmi Yilmaz, Thanit Kasemset, Sreedhar Reddy, Yip Boon Chong, Nikita Mehra, Claudio Ronco, Pi-Ru Tsai, Joanna Matuszkiewicz-Rowińska, Nicoletta Bellotti, Hong Ren, Norberto Garcia-Cairasco, M. Haapio, Lavinia Virvorea, Ling Wang, S. Soni, Magdy Francis, Mihai Ionac, Tolga Yildirim, Kwan-Dun Wu, Anna Lisa Neri, GhanbarAli Raaeisjalali, Yue Zhang, Antônio Balbinotto, Stefano De Servi, Wen Zhang, Daqing Hong, Bernhard K. Kraemer, S. Vishwanath, Jose Chacko, Christoph Loddenkemper, Lavdas Eleftherios, Valter Barzaghi, M. Zanella, P. Lentini, Emerson Q. Lima, Manas Ranjan Sahoo, Shrirang Bichu, Isac de Castro, Hari Janakiraman, Patrick Haage, Ping Zhang, Eugenia Singer, Kosaku Nitta, Hyoung Su Kim, Luca Di Toma, Yoon-Goo Kim, Wen Chang Chan, Kang Wook Lee, Micheal Kamel, Kimitoshi Nishiwaki, Jiaqi Qian, Sedigheh Amooee, Bahar Bastani, Cássia Morsch, Itzchak Slotki, F. Garzotto, Dong Won Lee, Hui Gao, Aysun Aybal, I. Bobek, Daisuke Sugiyama, Koutedakis Yiannis, Shailesh Gondane, Yukio Yuzawa, Adelina Mihaescu, Lilach Shema, Kai M. Schmidt-Ott, Liakopoulos Vassilios, Fernando Saldanha Thomé, George Patrut, Sébastien Perbet, Sarah Chung, Jinhee Cho, Su-Kyong Yu, Hiroki Hayashi, Thomas F. Mueller, Jonathan Barasch, Jungmin Son, Ben He, Somnath Chatterji, Serhan Piskinpasa, K Babu, A.K. Das, Melissa A. Laudano, Kazimierz Suwalski, Márcio Dantas, Zhaohui Ni, Lei Pu, Pingyan Shen, Vincent Sapin, Kenji Kadomatsu, I. Bolgan, Georgi Abraham, Jialiang Li, Raha Afshariani, Amanda R. Martins, Linda Shavit, M. Anoop, Ravindra Bhattu, Corrado Turri, Eui-Sic Kim, Bharati Sahoo, Jérôme Pugin, Luis Yu, Dariusz Wlodarczyk, Geron Ronit, Wen-Yi Li, Li Wang, Bertrand Souweine, Eun Young Seong, Chuen Neng Lee, Bora Peynircioglu, Alexander Altenburg, Gyu-Tae Shin, Jeong-Ah Kwon, Dilip Ashok Kirpalani, Zahra Najmi, Ashok Kirpalani, Fabrizio Poletti, Maryam Sharifian, Jean-Etienne Bazin, Taku Morito, Yu-Feng Lin, Hui Xu, Sakkas Giorgos, Miguel Moysés Neto, Lidia Lewandowska, Thomas L. Nickolas, Ramon Ramos Filho, Gaurav Daga, Jung Woo Noh, Vin-Cent Wu, Ken Tsuchiya, Barbaros Cil, Qiang He, Young Rim Song, Nan Chen, Oana Constantinescu, Waichi Sato, Rafael Carlos Miranda, Emmanuel Futier, Nicu Olariu, Ravindra L. Mehta, Soudabeh Kheirkhah, R. Anuradha, Hadjigeorgiou Georgios, M. de Cal, Agnieszka Grzejszczak, S. Puri, Weiming Wang, Alireza Serati, Stefanidis Ioannis, Soo Kun Lim, Wen-Jo Ko, Elvino José Guardão Barros, V. Corradi, Inwhee Park, Jamshid Roozbeh, Kinga Giers, Małgorzata Dębowska, Stanisław Niemczyk, Sang Heon Song, Ji-Yoon Jung, Fang Wang, Kudret Aytemir, P. Piccinni, Heungsoo Kim, Daniel Cruz, Youg-Tai Shin, Emmanuel A. Burdmann, Alexandre Lautrette, Bismay Kumar, S.Y. Tan, B. Noland, Fuquan Yang, Daejoong Kim, Bulent Altun, Meghan E. Sise, Seiichi Matsuo, S.H. Teo, Jean-Michel Constantin, Amit Nagarik, Oliver Schmalz, S. Mehta, J.S. Sandhu, Niranjan Mohanty, Jin Chen, Minoru Ando, Jung Eun Lee, Young-Hoon Kim, Shoichi Maruyama, Laurence Roszyk, Thayza Santos, Liora Ore, Arampatzis Spyridon, Erika Berg, Hamid Reza Samimagham, Hardik Shah, Ihm Soo Kwak, and Patrick Saudan

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Nephrology, business.industry, Medicine, business, Intensive care medicine
Published
2009

23. Peritoneal dialysis - 1

Author

Fatma Eroglu, Claudio Pozzi, Hyunwook Kim, Claudio Ronco, Benjamin Zeier, Xueqing Yu, Dirk G. Struijk, Javier Ocaña, Roman Stankiewicz, Marilena Cara, Taner Camsari, Jun Wada, Susan Yung, Hung Shih-Yuan, Fu-Chang Hu, Michał Nowicki, Ni Gao, Denise E. Sampimon, Deirisa Lopes Barreto, Zulfikar Yilmaz, Martin Zeier, Johan V. Povlsen, Daniele Ciurlino, Zofia Wankowicz, Yu-Yin Tsai, Rungmei S. K. Marak, Renzo Scanziani, Chang Ming-Yu, Iraj Najafi, Xiao Yang, Kazumichi Matsushita, Show-Mei Nian, Tak Mao Chan, Chunyan Yi, Yung-Ming Chen, Manel Vera, Eduard Garcia, Cheng-Hsu Chen, Laura Buzzi, Jens Dam Jensen, Petar Kes, Hung-Chun Chen, Almudena Ortigosa, Zeljka Mustapic, Wing-Fai Pang, Paula López-Sánchez, Christian Thiede, Carlo Crepaldi, Vedat Schwenger, Marie-Luise Gross, Giovambattista Virga, Qingyu Kong, Aiping Gu, Jenq-Wen Huang, Manuel Corral, Gao Dan, Ching-Yuang Lin, Liang Xian-hui, Wim Van Biesen, Isao Araki, Tetsu Miyamoto, Ivana Jurić, Roberto Russo, Xiuqing Dong, Francisco Coronel, Erjola Likaj, Ramazan Cetinkaya, Wieslawa Lysiak-Szydlowska, Chi-Chih Hung, Uta Oelschlaegel, Cheuk-Chun Szeto, Shigeru Akagi, Yuji Takatori, Ulrike Haug, Chih-Kang Chiang, Julia Kerschbaum, Veysi Akpolat, Per Ivarsen, Qiang Yao, Elena Alberghini, Lee Yi-Jer, Claudio Musetti, Bengt Lindholm, Mei-Chuan Kuo, Paweł Stróżecki, Michael A. Rudnicki, Teresa Grzelak, Aiwu Lin, Catherine Chen, Lars P. Kihm, Young Chul Yoon, Masahito Tamura, Qing Zhang, Mihaela Petti, A. Lawerence, Dong Hyung Lee, Shih-Tin Huang, Jun Wu, Xinghui Lin, Beom Seok Kim, Luciana Bonfante, Elżbieta Marcinkowska, Mariapia Rodighiero, Marijke de Graaff, Silvia Furiani, June Fabian, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Elena Corchete, Myftar Barbullushi, Manabu Kamiyama, Anna Stefańska, Sandra Müller-Krebs, Shin Wook Kang, Hasan Kayabasi, Mercedes Velo, Enzo Corghi, Kai-Ming Chow, Zbigniew Heleniak, Nikolina Bašić-Jukić, Raymond T. Krediet, Constanze Meye, Min-Ju Wu, Zhao Zhanzheng, Ryota Serino, Pierluigi di Loreto, Nicole Ladeira, Monika Lichodziejewska-Niemierko, Nader Nouri-Majalan, Hoshang Sanadgol, Gülgün Oktay, Raj Kumar Sharma, Yoshiaki Doi, Beata Szary, Anupma Kaul, Katarzyna Osiewala, Ivano Baragetti, Shang-Jyh Hwang, Paul König, Kuo-Hsiung Shu, Kuan-Yu Hung, M. Emin Yilmaz, Francisco Maduell, Haeng Soon Jeong, Yumi Furuno, Maurizio Nordio, Andrea Wagner, Hameed Anijeet, Jacek Rysz, Hye Ran Kim, Xiaoyan Li, Philip Kam-Tao Li, Ilaria Serra, Zhaohui Ni, Ya-Wen Chuang, Ali Kemal Kadiroglu, Marta Arias, Vincenzo La Milia, Yucheng Yan, José Portolés, Jacek Manitius, Liu Zhangsuo, Sagren Naidoo, Snjezana Glavas-Boras, Aliyu Abdu, Bolesław Rutkowski, Chi-Hung Cheng, Juan M. López-Gómez, Chia-Te Liao, Kay Herbrig, Joanna Stachowska-Pietka, Mieko MIyazaki, Xin Wang, Peter Gross, Tun-Jun Tsai, Weiying Chen, Jacek Waniewski, Mario R. Korte, Efsun Kolatan, Dorota Bielińska − Ogrodnik, Keiichi Takiue, Tatsuya Shibata, Eun Young Kim, Isabel Devolder, Ho Li-Chun, Zahide Cavdar, Makoto Hiramatsu, Si Hyun Kim, Mayte Ribera, Marcia R. Gómez, Rafał Donderski, Sylwia Małgorzewicz, Shirin Malgas, Dede Sit, Dariusz Nowak, Hamidullah Uyanik, Tobias Drescher, Ming-Ju Wu, Annick Verleysen, Robert A. Stolarek, Junko Inoue, Aggrey Mweemba, Aleix Cases, Grzegorz Zelichowski, Krystyna Czyżewska, Ho Yung Lee, Nagahiro Sato, Yutaka Otsuji, Jeong Hwan Shin, Shoichiro Kojo, Jiaqi Qian, Yang Wook Kim, Jens Passauer, Johann Hausdorfer, Osman Yilmaz, Hirofumi Makino, Tae Ik Chang, Ahmet Duraku, Tzu-Hui Chen, Jianxiong Lin, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Magdalena Grajewska, J.M. Campsitol, Yeong Hoon Kim, Jung Tak Park, Raymond Vanholder, Chi-Bon Leung, Chen-Yen Kuo, Anniek Vlijm, Li Yan, Hsin-Hui Wang, Takashi Yamagishi, Jae Hyun Chang, Jin-Bor Chen, Antonio Alcaraz, Patricia de Sequera, Jolanta Fijalkowska, Wang Hsi-Hao, Anna Olszowska, Rammohan Bhat, Mizuya Fukasawa, Graham Paget, Jocelyn T Naicker, Saimir Seferi, Silvio Bertoli, Wei Fang, Gert Mayer, Ling Ye, Mustafa Keles, Su-Chu Lee, Masashi Suzuki, Kwan-Dun Wu, Saraladevi Naicker, Denise Sampimon, Shang-Chih Liao, Kyu Hun Choi, Bonnie Ching-Ha Kwan, Sarasadat Moghadasimousavi, Giorgio Vescovo, Adrianna Pedzik, Muhammad Imran, Weiming Zhang, Narutoshi Kabashima, Funda Saglam, Tae Hyun Yoo, Martin Bornhäuser, Tung-Min Yu, Ryoko Baba, Nestor Thereska, Sun Young Park, Masami Bessho, Sulen Sarioglu, Hamit Acemoglu, Hiroshi Morinaga, Kazushi Nakao, Abdullah Uyanik, Andrzej Werynski, Masayuki Takedda, Dong Ki Kim, Jeong Nyeo Lee, Bang-Gee Hsu, Bergadá E, Shouji Kudo, and Néstor Fontseré

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Nephrology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, medicine, Urology, business, Peritoneal dialysis
Published
2009

24. Peritoneal dialysis - 2

Author

Yosshimi Sekiguchi, Sydney S.C. Tang, Ka Ying Tam, Pieter Ter Wee, Masato Kasahara, Takuma Hazama, Muhammad Shahed Ahmed, Luis Michea, Martina Pechula Thut, Begoña Rivas, Sang Choel Lee, Ana Salazar, Stephen G. John, Steven McTaggart, Isabel Martín, Takashige Kuwabara, Jens Schewe, Miguel Angel Suárez, Fu-Chang Hu, Jose A. Sanchez-Tomero, Valeria Aicardi, Iris Rafalia, Władysław Sułowicz, Giancarlo Lavoratti, Naoto Miura, Rigas Kalaitzidis, Parmentier Simon, Carolyn Clark, Eve Chowaniec, Vitor Ramalho, Guadalupe Gonzalez, Haiping Mao, Ilse Maria Ratsch, Yi-Sheng Lin, Dan-Xia Zheng, Qing-Feng Han, Amit Gupta, Michał Chmielewski, Marcin Renke, Catrin Palm, Kwan-Dun Wu, Katarzyna Janda, Chieko Hamada, Richard Baer, Mooyong Park, Stephan Segerer, Miguel Perez Fontan, Seongah Hong, Natalia Blanco Castro, Marcin Krzanowski, Masashi Mukoyama, Hossam El-Shazly, J.E. Sanchez, Anneleen Pletinck, Da-Hong Wang, Carmen Cámara, Carmel M. Hawley, Franziska Belling, Przemysław Miarka, Rudolf P. Wuethrich, Shvan Korsheed, Mohammed Al-Azmi, Roberto Chimenz, Tao Wang, Konstantinos Siamopoulos, Marcel Schouten, Zhikai Yang, Tetsutaro Shimaoka, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, Rubén Torres, Beata Kusnierz, Yasuhiko Ito, Walter Douthat, Matthias Sauter, Hameed Anijeet, Vivian Fathi, Beatriz Malvar, Margarita Economou, Yukihiro Kimura, Yoko Hotta, Bruno Gianoglio, Alan Cass, Angelines Domínguez, Inés Castellano, Teresa Bellón, M. Auxiliadora Bajo, Tomohito Matsunaga, Sandra Gallego, Enrico Vidal, Jenq-Wen Huang, Antonio Fernandez-Perpen, Manuel Amoedo, Esteban Romero, Tun-Jun Tsai, Manoel Pacheco Andrade, Yusuke Kaida, Keiichi Takiue, Karolina Kotewicz, Hisako Muramatsu, Paraskevi Tseke, Hiroaki Io, P. Vidau, Liliana Gomez, Helen Jefferies, Agostinho S. Carvalho, Kiyoshi Mori, Juan Ramón Gómez-Martino, Gert A. Verpooten, Alicia Smith, Richard Fluck, Jonas Axelsson, Giovanna Leozappa, Seung-Duk Hwang, Bolesław Rutkowski, Paul Snelling, Hiroshi Morinaga, Xiao Yang, Yung-Ming Chen, Gloria del Peso, Clara Molina, M. Joao Carvalho, Sara Estupiñan, Tak Mao Chan, Wai-Kei Lo, Jing Nie, Carmine Pecoraro, Seung Hyeok Han, Ea Wha Kang, Konstantinos Katopodis, Alberto Edefonti, David W. Johnson, Magdalena Gonzalez, Bartosz Skonieczny, Soo-Jeong Choi, Tomoko Kawanishi, George Spanos, M Jose Castro, Rafael Selgas, T. Ortega, Markus Wörnle, Inna Kolesnyk, Geoffrey Playford, Ching-Hsiu Peng, Tomasz Liberek, Rie Kitamura, Kay Herbrig, Jie Dong, Natasha J. McIntyre, C. Rodriguez, Li-Tao Cheng, Hugo Poblete, Auxiliadora Bajo, Hideki Yokoi, Jutta Passlick-Deetjen, M. Luisa Perez-Lozano, Ayako Fujimi, Yohei Maeshima, Liqiong Hu, Daijiro Masamoto, Raj Kumar Sharma, Manuel Lopez-Cabrera, Antonio Cabrita, Wim Van Biesen, Frans J. van Ittersum, Andres Stutzin, Javier de Arteaga, Y.Z. Shah, Wim Rüger, Hideharu Tanaka, Christopher W. McIntyre, Archna Sinha, Ai-Hua Zhang, Baltasar Lucendo, Thomas Sitter, Nari Kim, Anita Saxena, Amaia Ros, Shili Zhao, Ryuji Iwatani, Kei Fukami, Miriam Alvo, Seiichi Matsuo, Takahiro Kuragano, Yuko Inami, James O. Burton, Tang Li, Karin Janssen van Doorn, Luiz Comazzetto, M. Martin, Qiongqiong Yang, Masayoshi Nanami, Man-Lai Chu, Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Yoshimi Takamiya, Angela Bento, Roland Ladurner, Man Fei Lam, Silvio Maringhini, Takeshi Nakanishi, Pablo U. Massari, Szu-Chun Hung, Eleni Triantou, C. Garcia-Cueto, John Paul Killen, Kate Kendall, Enrico Verrina, Filipa Vilhena, Yukiko Hasuike, Olga Balafa, Julio Bittar, Jiro Inuma, Y. Ogawa, Li Zuo, Jorge L. De La Fuente, Mariane B.R. Martins, Wanbok Lee, Aritoshi Kida, Adriana Coutinho, Raymond T. Krediet, Rafael Sánchez-Villanueva, Yaning Wang, Jacek Kot, Jin Kuk Kim, Hiroshi Nonoguchi, Bassam Al-Helal, João Aniceto, Amal Hassan, Kazuwa Nakao, Fabian Ledesma, Seiji Ueda, M. Joao Rocha, Fernanda L. Lima, Jose Cabeda, Thomas Mussack, Nora Gad, Stephane Heritier, Eduardo Lorca, Seiya Okuda, Hirotaka Imamaki, Man-Fai Lam, Ana Luisa Eguiguren, Kar-Neng Lai, Luciana M.M. Barbosa, Yasuhiko Tomino, Andres Lopez Muñiz, João Victor Duarte Lobo, Joseph Leung, Lindsay J. Chesterton, Maria Van Landschoot, Virginia Martínez, Dae Suk Han, Midoriko Watanabe, Bengt Lindholm, Yoko Saito, Jolanta Kowalewska, Hon-Yen Wu, Friedo W. Dekker, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Jens Passauer, Elaine Beller, Anabela S. Rodrigues, Kar Neng Lai, Ricardo Santos, Anupama Kaul, Naser Hussain, Ximena Rocca, Alejandro Pacheco, Carlos Chiurchiu, Zhewen Zhong, Akira Sugawara, Raymond Vanholder, Helena Diaz Cambre, Vlado Perkovic, Hayato Nishimura, Tatsuyuki Inoue, Hirofumi Makino, Luisa Murer, Narayan Prasad, Anabela Malho, Janak de Zoysa, Ali Attaia, Charles Thompson, Masuo Obinata, Andrea Ribeiro, Katsukiyo Ito, Takuo Kusumoto, Kiyomi Koike, Monika Lichodziejewska-Niemierko, Keiki Ogino, Wei Chen, Kuan-Yu Hung, Norihiro Suga, Jinjin Fan, Nicole N. Isbel, Xueqing Yu, E. Gago, Der-Cherng Tarng, Ana Rodriguez-Carmona, Tomasz Stompór, Shinji Kitamura, Isabel Fonseca, Nabieh Al-Hilali, Takashi Muramatsu, Murty Mantha, Pedro Pessegueiro, Kleyton A. Bastos, Yoshinaga Otaki, Marc Van den Bossche, Sanne E. Hoeks, Mi-Suen Lee, Noriyoshi Masuoka, Qunying Guo, Ruixi Li, Alf Corsenca, Macarena Arancibia, Seiki Aruga, Luiz S. Aroeira, Carlos Pires, B. Diaz-Molina, Kayo Kaneko, Hirokazu Imai, Palma Sorino, Shigeru Akagi, Paul Owen, Ko-Lin Kuo, Fengxin Zhu, Teresa Garcia Falcon, Xueqin Wang, Takuya Seto, and Ana Marta Gomes

Subjects
Transplantation, medicine.medical_specialty, Nephrology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, medicine, Urology, business, Peritoneal dialysis
Published
2009

25. Serum ferritin level required for adequate response to recombinant human erythropoietin in haemodialysis patients with hepatitis C virus infection

Author

Kuan-Yu Hung, Tun-Jun Tsai, Kwan-Dun Wu, D J Wu, and Wang-Yu Chen

Subjects
Transplantation, business.industry, Hepatitis C virus, Serum ferritin level, Hepatitis C, medicine.disease, medicine.disease_cause, Virology, law.invention, Nephrology, law, Erythropoietin, Recombinant DNA, Medicine, business, Recombinant erythropoietin, medicine.drug
Published
1998

26. Dopamine D4 receptor counteracts dopamine D2 receptor effect through different PKC isoenzymes

Author

Bor-Shen Hseih, Kwan-Dun Wu, Hong-Wei Chang, Pei-Lun Chu, and Vincet Wu

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Dopaminergic, D1-like receptor, Dopamine receptor D1, Endocrinology, Dopamine receptor D3, Dopamine receptor, D2-like receptor, Dopamine receptor D2, Internal medicine, Internal Medicine, medicine, Enzyme-linked receptor, business
Published
2005

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