Renal fibrosis, especially tubulointerstitial fibrosis, is the inevitable outcome of all
progressive chronic kidney diseases (CKDs) and exerts a great health burden worldwide …

The arteriovenous fistula has been used for more than 50 years to provide vascular access
for patients undergoing hemodialysis. More than 1.5 million patients worldwide have end …

The host response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
infection can result in prolonged pathologies collectively referred to as post-acute sequalae …

The application of deep learning for automated segmentation (delineation of boundaries) of
histologic primitives (structures) from whole slide images can facilitate the establishment of …

Diabetic nephropathy is a common complication of type I and type II diabetes, in which renal
glomeruli are destroyed, resulting in renal damage, proteinuria, and hypertension …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive systemic disease, which changes the
function and structure of the kidneys irreversibly over months or years. The final common …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) will become the fifth global cause of death by 2040, thus
emphasizing the need to better understand the molecular mechanisms of damage and …

Alport syndrome affects up to 60,000 people in the United States. The proposed
reclassification of thin basement membrane nephropathy and some cases of focal …

Tubulointerstitial fibrosis, tubular atrophy, and peritubular capillary rarefaction are major
hallmarks of chronic kidney disease. The tubulointerstitium consists of multiple cell …

Lipotoxicity is a fundamental pathophysiologic mechanism in diabetes and non-alcoholic
fatty liver disease and is now increasingly recognized in diabetic kidney disease (DKD) …