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Diabetic kidney disease continues to be a public health challenge that we have not been able to confront because we still don't understand the pathogenesis of the disease and treatments have not…Continue
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There is evidence of strong genetic and environmental factors that affect the development of diabetes and its complications including kidney disease and heart disease. Theories have been proposed to…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Angie May 25, 2010.
Posted on January 27, 2010 at 16:02
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My brother who lives in Israel have kidney disease hereditary severe and does dialysis for 2 years, he is a young 35 years old married with three young children .three times a week for about six hours a day, including travel, and of course it is intolerable situation for our family, we looked for solution and we checked and many places where transplantation can be performed. It took a long time and we finally found reliable and organized place after recommendations from patients who maid transplantation with great success! We now are in vey advanced stage for transplantation.
We would very pleased to share with you information and help as best we can as people helped us. We look forward to being friends
We count days until big day and we will share the results with you.
Dear Mario, thanks for writing, I mention that we are parents of children suffering from kidney failure who are hospitalized at the National Children's Hospital Benjamin Bloom, we organize activities to raise funds and buy supplies and medicines, we hope to hear from you and we are open to new ideas in order to achieve our objectives.
Sincerely.
Rodolfo Rivera.
Thank you so much for having responded to my e-mail, assuring me that both you and your desperately needed research efforts, are thriving.
I was concerned, in not having heard from you, that all of your research efforts might have been terminated due to the
downward turn in our nation's economy, to say nothing of the apparent lack of concern and respect for medicine and, particularly, medical research!
Thank you, especially, for having thoughtfully taken of your time to share some of your work with me. You are as a brave soldier on the front lines, combating a seemingly relentless cascade
of metabolic events which nearly always culminate in the death of nephrons. Some of the on-line medical journals that I have been reading are hopeful as to the efficacy of monoclonal
antibodies against CTGF. I have also read of the promising effects of antioxidant therapy.
Although this may seem a morbid fascination, I am intrigued that the body, in response to what it subjectively perceives as a hopeless situation, (such as in the progressive onslaught of CTGF, characteristic of diabetic nephropathy),
will seem to initiate a positive feedback mechanism by which to shut it self down. How and why had such a mechanism been evolutionary selected in the first place?
This is a sad time, also, for adjunct professors as the winnowing hand of The Second Great Depression has all but decimate the teaching field, particularly in NJ. Although I am saddened by the lack of teaching opportunities that
have most recently been made available to me, I am grateful for what little work I have and savor the opportunities to teach private lessons in anatomy and physiology that occasionally are offered me.
As always, I very much look forward to hearing more from you on the front lines of research, time permitting...
Sincerely,
Janice
I am a registered nurse and work with pre-dialysis pts. We are going to do screenings for kidney failure in 2 shopping malls on WKD by using the reflowtron machine.
I am living in Bloemfontein in South Africa.
Kind regards