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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has a range of presentations and outcomes from asymptomatic carriage to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death.1 The...

Patients with chronic kidney disease, especially those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), are susceptible to the development of severe COVID-19 which is associated with high mortality (1). Apart from respiratory support depending upon the...

World Kidney Day is an appropriate time to reflect on the epidemics(s) of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of undetermined cause (CKDu) that are affecting agricultural communities in Central America, South Asia, and possibly other parts of the...

Persons with acquired solitary kidney, including those who have had a unilateral nephrectomy for living kidney donation, renal malignancies, or trauma, have decreased renal mass that leads to increased intraglomerular pressure and glomerular...

IgA nephropathy is a chronic renal disease characterized by mesangial immunodeposits that contain autoantigen, which is aberrantly glycosylated IgA1 with some hinge-region O-glycans deficient in galactose. Macroscopic hematuria during an upper...