Male Gender and Body Mass Index Are Associated With Hypertension and Reduced Kidney Function 5 or More Years After Living Kidney Donation.

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate renal function and to explore the relationship between some risk factors in kidney donors 12.37 ± 7.60 years after donation. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study conducted in a transplant unit, 77 nephrectomized subjects were assessed ≥5 years after donation to evaluate their renal function and the presence or absence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, and microalbuminuria. RESULTS: Twenty donors had an estimated glomerular filtration rate of <60 mL/min/1.73 m(2). Nine donors showed urinary albumin excretion of >20 µg/min (11.68%). Subjects with an EGFR of <60 mL/min were predominantly male and hypertensive and showed higher body mass index (BMI), higher uric acid, higher total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TC/HDL-C), and logarithm of triglycerides/HDL-C (log TG/HDL-C) ratios than donors with an EGFR of >60 mL/min. Hypertensive donors were older and had higher BMI, higher UA serum values, higher TC/HDL-C and log TG/HDL-C ratios and microalbuminuria than nonhypertensive donors (P < .005). A multivariate analysis was conducted and, after final adjustment, a filtration rate of <60 mL/min was 3.05 times higher in men than women, increased 10% for each 1-unit increase in BMI and was positively associated with log (TG/HDL-C). The frequency of hypertension increased by 10% for each 1-unit increase in BMI and was positively associated with microalbuminuria. CONCLUSION: In this sample of kidney donors from a single transplant unit, ≥5 years after donation, male sex and high BMI were positively associated with the presence of kidney failure.

Effects of water deprivation on renal hydroelectrolytic excretion in chronically Trypanosoma cruzi-infected rats

The effect of an 8 hour-period of water deprivation on fluid and electrolyte renal excretion was investigated in male Wistar rats infected with the strain Sao Felipe (12SF) of Trypanosoma cruzi, in comparison with age and sex matched non-infected controls. The median percent reductions in the urinary flow (-40 per cent v -63 per cent) and excretion of sodium (-57 per cent v - 79 per cent) were smaller in chagasic than in control rats, respectively. So, chagasic rats excereted more than controls. On the other hand, the median percent decrement in the clearance of creatinine was higher in chagasic (-51 per cent) than in controls (-39 per cent). Thus, chagasic rats showed some disturbed renal hydroelectrolytic responses to water deprivation, expressed by smaller conservation, or higher excretion of water and sodium in association with smallerglotmerular filtration rate. This fact denoted an elevation in the fractional excretion of sodium and water.

Insuficiência renal aguda em leishmaniose tegumentar americana tratada com a associaçäo glucantime e alopurinol / Acute renal insufficiency in mucocutaneous leismaniasis reated with glucantime and allopurinol

Os autores apresentam um caso de leishmaniose tegumentar americana causada por Leishmânia viannia brasiliensis que de um grupo de seis pacientes tratados com a associaçäo glucantime e alopurinol desenvolveu quadro de nefrite intersticial aguda acompanhado de exantema cutâneo. Questionam se näo houve potencializaçäo na interaçäo das drogas com relaçäo ao efeito desejável

Pentavalent antimonial nephrotoxicity in the rat

Estudou-se a funcao renal de ratos tratados com Glucantime (Antimoniato de Meglumine, Rhodia) e Pentostam (estibogloconato de Sodio, Wellcome) na dose de 30 mg de "Sb POT v" por 100g de peso por dia, durante 30 dias. Observou-se um disturbio na concentracao urinaria, que foi reversivel 7 dias apos cessada a administracao das drogas. O estudo histopatologico do rim, por meio da microscopia optica, nao evidenciou alteracoes significativas. Por outro lado, ratos tratados com altas doses dos antimoniais (220mg de "Sb POT v" por 100g de peso por dia) mostraram alteracoes funcionais e histopatologicas renais compativeis com necrose tubular aguda