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Chronic kidney disease, severe arterial and arteriolar sclerosis and kidney neoplasia: on the spectrum of kidney involvement in MELAS syndrome.

Piccoli GB1, Bonino LD, Campisi P, Vigotti FN, Ferraresi M, Fassio F, Brocheriou I, Porpiglia F, Restagno G.
BMC nephrology.BMC Nephrol.2012 Feb 21;13:9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2369-13-9.
BACKGROUND: MELAS syndrome (MIM ID#540000), an acronym for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like episodes, is a genetically heterogeneous mitochondrial disorder with protean manifestations and occasional kidney involvement. Interest in the latter is rising due to the identifi
PMID 22353239

Associations of glomerular number and birth weight with clinicopathological features of African Americans and whites.

Hughson MD1, Gobe GC, Hoy WE, Manning RD Jr, Douglas-Denton R, Bertram JF.
American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation.Am J Kidney Dis.2008 Jul;52(1):18-28. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.03.023. Epub 2008 Jun 2.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension and its cardiovascular complications affect African Americans more severely than whites, a disparity variously ascribed to low birth weight, low glomerular number, an exaggerated arteriolonephrosclerotic blood pressure response, and inflammation-induced oxidative stress.STUD
PMID 18514988

Hypertensive encephalopathy mimicking brainstem tumour in psychiatric patient.

Jurcić V1, Ferluga D, Jeruc J, Pogacnik T, Popović M.
Folia neuropathologica / Association of Polish Neuropathologists and Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences.Folia Neuropathol.2004;42(1):37-41.
Hypertensive encephalopathy is a syndrome consisting of headache, seizures, visual changes, and other neurologic disturbances in patients with elevated systemic blood pressure. Diagnosis based on clinical and radiological findings, which are not specific, may be difficult to establish. Furthermore,
PMID 15119744

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