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    • Lehmann, Paula; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2017)
      La diálisis peritoneal (DP) es la terapia de reemplazo renal más usada en niños portadores de enfermedad renal crónica terminal. La enfermedad cardiovascular es la principal causa de mortalidad en estos pacientes. Objetivo: ...
    • Carrasco, Fernando; Cano, Marcelo; Camousseigt, Jean; Arenas Rojas, Pamela; Inostroza, Jorge; Torres, Rubén (2013)
      BACKGROUND: In chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, malnutrition is common with loss of muscle mass and decreased bone mineral density (BMD), increasing the risk of morbidity. OBJECTIVE: To compare body composition, bone ...
    • Sugg H., Carolina; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco (Sociedad Chilena Pediatría, 2020)
      Existe una estrecha relación entre enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) y enfermedad cardiovascular. Una de sus manifestaciones clínicas es la hipertrofia de ventrículo izquierdo (HVI), expresada como Indice de Masa Ventricular ...
    • Neil, Nancy; Walker, David R.; Sesso, Ricardo; Blackburn, Juan Carlos; Tschosik, Elizabeth A.; Sciaraffia, Vito; García-Contreras, Fernando; Capsa, Dimitrie; Bhattacharyya, Samir K. (Elsevier Ltd, 2009)
      Objectives: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a debilitating condition resulting in death unless treated. Treatment options are transplantation and dialysis. Alternative dialysis modalities are peritoneal dialysis (PD) and ...
    • Ugarte, Francisca; Irarrázabal, Carlos; Oh, Jun; Dettmar, Anne; Ceballos, María L.; Rojo, Angélica; Ibacache, M. José; Suazo, Cristián; Lozano, Mauricio; Delgado B., Iris; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Azócar Pruyas, Marta; Delucchi Bicocchi, María Angela; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco (Springer, 2016)
      Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is characterized by severe growth failure. The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 (GH/IGF-1) axis in uremic animals shows a post-receptor impaired phosphorylation of Janus ...
    • Trautmann, Agnes; Vivarelli, Marina; Samuel, Susan; Gipson, Debbie; Sinha, Aditi; Schaefer, Franz; Hui, Ng Kar; Boyer, Olivia; Saleem, Moin A.; Feltran, Luciana; Müller-Deile, Janina; Becker, Jan Ulrich; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco; Xu, Hong; Lim, Yam Ngo; Smoyer, William; Anochie, Ifeoma; Nakanishi, Koichi; Hodson, Elisabeth; Haffner, Dieter (Springer, 2020)
      Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome newly affects 1-3 per 100,000 children per year. Approximately 85% of cases show complete remission of proteinuria following glucocorticoid treatment. Patients who do not achieve complete ...
    • Ceballos, María Luisa; Rojo, Angélica; Azócar Pruyas, Marta; Ibacache M., María José; Delucchi Bicocchi, María Angela; Quiroz Z., Lily; Irarrázabal, Carlos; Delgado, Iris; Ugarte, Francisca; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2014)
      Introduction: Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) have disorders of mineral metabolism that impact their growth, survival and cardiovascular functions. New molecular markers ...
    • González, Magdalena; Martínez, Rafael; Amador, Cristián; Michea Acevedo, Luis (2009)
      Vascular calcification is caused by the deposition of basic calcium phosphate crystals in blood vessels, myocardium, and/or cardiac valves. Calcification decreases artery wall compliance, and arterial calcification is ...
    • Evangelidis, Nicole; Sautenet, Benedicte; Madero, Magdalena; Tong, Allison; Ashuntantang, Gloria; Cortés Sanabria, Laura; de Boer, Ian H.; Fung, Samuel; Gallego, Daniel; Levey, Andrew S.; Levin, Adeera; Lorca, Eduardo; Okpechi, Ikechi G.; Rossignol, Patrick; Sola, Laura; Usherwood, Tim; Wheeler, David C.; Cho, Yeoungjee; Howell, Martin; Guha, Chandana; Scholes Robertson, Nicole; Widders, Katherine; Matus González, Andrea; Teixeira Pinto, Armando; Viecelli, Andrea K.; Bernier Jean, Amelie; Anumudu, Samaya; Dunn, Louese; Wilkie, Martin; Craig, Jonathan C. (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Globally, over 1.2 million people die from chronic kidney disease (CKD) every year. Patients with CKD are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than progress to kidney failure requiring kidney replacement ...
    • Cabrera García, Sebastián; Torres Díaz, Rubén; Elgueta Segura, Leticia; Segovia Ruiz, Erico; Sanhueza Villanueva, María Eugenia; Boltansky, Andrés; Alvo Abodovsky, Miriam (Oxford, 2020)