{"title":"Factor XI inhibition in hemodialysis patients: the safer anticoagulation?","authors":"Eleni Stamellou , Heidi Noels , Jürgen Floege","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.03.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.03.029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Chronic hemodialysis patients exhibit an excessive cardiovascular risk and a marked increase in both thromboembolism and bleeding episodes. Factor XI inhibition may provide anticoagulation, with a low risk of bleeding, and several factor XI inhibitors, including fesomersen, an antisense oligonucleotide, are under development. Recently, a phase 2 study of fesomersen showed a good safety profile in chronic hemodialysis patients and suggested that clotting rates of the arteriovenous fistula and the dialysis circuit are lower.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingyao Li , Xi’ang Sun , Ninghao Yang , Jiayun Ni , Hongyan Xie , Hengjiang Guo , Xin Wang , Li Zhou , Jun Liu , Sijia Chen , Xiaoxia Wang , Yingying Zhang , Chen Yu , Wei Zhang , Limin Lu
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Phosphoglycerate mutase 5 initiates inflammation in acute kidney injury by triggering mitochondrial DNA release by dephosphorylating the pro-apoptotic protein Bax.” Kidney International 2023;103:115–133","authors":"Jingyao Li , Xi’ang Sun , Ninghao Yang , Jiayun Ni , Hongyan Xie , Hengjiang Guo , Xin Wang , Li Zhou , Jun Liu , Sijia Chen , Xiaoxia Wang , Yingying Zhang , Chen Yu , Wei Zhang , Limin Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253824002692/pdfft?md5=48a6257ce320958a01a676f39909ff78&pid=1-s2.0-S0085253824002692-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking the amphoterism out of amphotericin: a wonder drug in the making","authors":"Andrew Beenken","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.01.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.01.032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ian P. Rios , Christian H.L. Nguyen , Suman S. Misra , Margaret S. Ryan , Sumi S. Nair , Hasan A. Khamash
{"title":"Foscarnet-induced nephropathy in a kidney transplant recipient","authors":"Ian P. Rios , Christian H.L. Nguyen , Suman S. Misra , Margaret S. Ryan , Sumi S. Nair , Hasan A. Khamash","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.02.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.02.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preventing MMP23-mediated cleavage of podocyte RARRES1: a novel strategy to halt chronic kidney disease progression?","authors":"Paulina X. Medina Rangel , Shuta Ishibe","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Glomerular issues and affected podocytes are at the origin of 80% of chronic kidney disease cases. Thus, acquiring a deeper understanding in this domain is necessary to halt progressive kidney damage. In this study, the authors investigated the harmful impact of podocyte-cleaved soluble retinoic acid receptor responder protein-1 on podocytes and proximal tubular cells and identified matrix metalloprotease 23 as the enzyme responsible for cleaving retinoic acid receptor responder protein-1. These findings provide new insights into chronic kidney disease progression, suggesting innovative treatment avenues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hiddo J L Heerspink, Devin Eddington, Juhi Chaudhari, Raymond Estacio, Enyu Imai, Marian Goicoechea, Thierry Hannedouche, Richard Haynes, Tazeen H Jafar, David W Johnson, Rob C M van Kruijsdijk, Julia B Lewis, Philip K T Li, Brendon L Neuen, Ronald D Perrone, Piero Ruggenenti, Christoph Wanner, Mark Woodward, Di Xie, Tom Greene, Lesley A Inker
{"title":"A meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials for implications of acute treatment effects on glomerular filtration rate for long-term kidney protection.","authors":"Hiddo J L Heerspink, Devin Eddington, Juhi Chaudhari, Raymond Estacio, Enyu Imai, Marian Goicoechea, Thierry Hannedouche, Richard Haynes, Tazeen H Jafar, David W Johnson, Rob C M van Kruijsdijk, Julia B Lewis, Philip K T Li, Brendon L Neuen, Ronald D Perrone, Piero Ruggenenti, Christoph Wanner, Mark Woodward, Di Xie, Tom Greene, Lesley A Inker","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pharmacologic interventions to slow chronic kidney disease progression, such as ACE-inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, or sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, often produce acute treatment effects on glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that differ from their long-term chronic treatment effects. Observational studies assessing the implications of acute effects cannot distinguish acute effects from GFR changes unrelated to the treatment. Here, we performed meta-regression analysis of multiple trials to isolate acute effects to determine their long-term implications. In 64 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), enrolling 154,045 participants, we estimated acute effects as the mean between-group difference in GFR slope from baseline to three months, effects on chronic GFR slope (starting at three months after randomization), and effects on three composite kidney endpoints defined by kidney failure (GFR 15 ml/min/1.73m<sup>2</sup> or less, chronic dialysis, or kidney transplantation) or sustained GFR declines of 30%, 40% or 57% decline, respectively. We used Bayesian meta-regression to relate acute effects with treatment effects on chronic slope and the composite kidney endpoints. Overall, acute effects were not associated with treatment effects on chronic slope. Acute effects were associated with the treatment effects on composite kidney outcomes such that larger negative acute effects were associated with lesser beneficial effects on the composite kidney endpoints. Associations were stronger when the kidney composite endpoints were defined by smaller thresholds of GFR decline (30% or 40%). Results were similar in a subgroup of interventions with supposedly hemodynamic effects that acutely reduce GFR. For studies with GFR 60 mL/min/1.73m<sup>2</sup> or under, negative acute effects were associated with larger beneficial effects on chronic GFR slope. Thus, our data from a large and diverse set of RCTs suggests that acute effects of interventions may influence the treatment effect on clinical kidney outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph C Maggiore, Ryan LeGraw, Aneta Przepiorski, Jeremy Velazquez, Christopher Chaney, Thitinee Vanichapol, Evan Streeter, Zainab Almuallim, Akira Oda, Takuto Chiba, Anne Silva-Barbosa, Jonathan Franks, Joshua Hislop, Alex Hill, Haojia Wu, Katherine Pfister, Sara E Howden, Simon C Watkins, Melissa H Little, Benjamin D Humphreys, Samira Kiani, Alan Watson, Donna B Stolz, Alan J Davidson, Tom Carroll, Ondine Cleaver, Sunder Sims-Lucas, Mo R Ebrahimkhani, Neil A Hukriede
{"title":"A genetically inducible endothelial niche enables vascularization of human kidney organoids with multilineage maturation and emergence of renin expressing cells.","authors":"Joseph C Maggiore, Ryan LeGraw, Aneta Przepiorski, Jeremy Velazquez, Christopher Chaney, Thitinee Vanichapol, Evan Streeter, Zainab Almuallim, Akira Oda, Takuto Chiba, Anne Silva-Barbosa, Jonathan Franks, Joshua Hislop, Alex Hill, Haojia Wu, Katherine Pfister, Sara E Howden, Simon C Watkins, Melissa H Little, Benjamin D Humphreys, Samira Kiani, Alan Watson, Donna B Stolz, Alan J Davidson, Tom Carroll, Ondine Cleaver, Sunder Sims-Lucas, Mo R Ebrahimkhani, Neil A Hukriede","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vascularization plays a critical role in organ maturation and cell-type development. Drug discovery, organ mimicry, and ultimately transplantation hinge on achieving robust vascularization of in vitro engineered organs. Here, focusing on human kidney organoids, we overcame this hurdle by combining a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line containing an inducible ETS translocation variant 2 (ETV2) (a transcription factor playing a role in endothelial cell development) that directs endothelial differentiation in vitro, with a non-transgenic iPSC line in suspension organoid culture. The resulting human kidney organoids show extensive endothelialization with a cellular identity most closely related to human kidney endothelia. Endothelialized kidney organoids also show increased maturation of nephron structures, an associated fenestrated endothelium with de novo formation of glomerular and venous subtypes, and the emergence of drug-responsive renin expressing cells. The creation of an engineered vascular niche capable of improving kidney organoid maturation and cell type complexity is a significant step forward in the path to clinical translation. Thus, incorporation of an engineered endothelial niche into a previously published kidney organoid protocol allowed the orthogonal differentiation of endothelial and parenchymal cell types, demonstrating the potential for applicability to other basic and translational organoid studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivy A Rosales, Iris Yuwen Zhou, Ilknur Ay, Mozhdeh Sojoodi, Meghan E Sise, Eric M Gale
{"title":"Imaging kidney inflammation using an oxidatively activated MRI probe.","authors":"Ivy A Rosales, Iris Yuwen Zhou, Ilknur Ay, Mozhdeh Sojoodi, Meghan E Sise, Eric M Gale","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Imaging tools for kidney inflammation could improve care for patients suffering inflammatory kidney diseases by lessening reliance on percutaneous biopsy or biochemical tests alone. During kidney inflammation, infiltration of myeloid immune cells generates a kidney microenvironment that is oxidizing relative to normal kidney. Here, we evaluated whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using the redox-active iron (Fe) complex Fe-PyC3A as an oxidatively activated probe could serve as a marker of kidney inflammation using mouse models of unilateral ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) and lupus nephritis (MRL-lpr mice). We imaged unilateral IRI in gp91phox knockout mice, which are deficient in the nicotinamide oxidase II (NOX2) enzyme required for myeloid oxidative burst, as loss of function control, and imaged MRL/MpJ mice as non-kidney involved lupus control. Gadoterate meglumine was used as a non-oxidatively activated control MRI probe. Fe-PyC3A safety was preliminarily examined following a single acute dose. Fe-PyC3A generated significantly greater MRI signal enhancement in the IRI kidney compared to the contralateral kidney in wild-type mice, but the effect was not observed in the NOX2-deficient control. Fe-PyC3A also generated significantly greater kidney enhancement in MRL-lpr mice compared to MRL/MpJ control. Gadoterate meglumine did not differentially enhance the IRI kidney over the contralateral kidney and did not differentially enhance the kidneys of MRL-lpr over MRL/MpJ mice. Fe-PyC3A was well tolerated at the highest dose evaluated, which was a 40-fold greater than required for imaging. Thus, our data indicate that MRI using Fe-PyC3A is specific to an oxidizing kidney environment shaped by activity of myeloid immune cells and support further evaluation of Fe-PyC3A for imaging kidney inflammation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of microplastics on the kidneys: a narrative review","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics are small synthetic organic polymer particles (<5 mm and <1 μm, respectively) that originate directly from plastic compounds or result from the degradation of plastic. These particles are a global concern because they are widely distributed in water, air, food, and soil, and recent scientific evidence has linked MPs to negative biological effects. Although these particles are difficult to detect in humans, MPs have been identified in different biological fluids and tissues, such as the placenta, lung, intestines, liver, blood, urine, and kidneys. Human exposure to MPs can occur by ingestion, inhalation, or dermal contact, potentially causing metabolic alterations. Data from experimental and clinical studies have revealed that the ability of MPs to promote inflammation, oxidative stress, and organ dysfunction and negatively affect clinical outcomes is associated with their accumulation in body fluids and tissues. Although evidence of the putative action of MPs in the human kidney is still scarce, there is growing interest in studying MPs in this organ. In addition, </span>chronic kidney disease requires investigation because this condition is potentially prone to MP accumulation. The purpose of the present article is (i) to review the general aspects of MP generation, available analytic methods for identification, and the main known biological toxic effects; and (ii) to describe and critically analyze key experimental and clinical studies that support a role of MPs in kidney disease.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of complement in kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Uncontrolled complement activation can cause or contribute to glomerular injury in multiple kidney diseases. Although complement activation plays a causal role in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and C3 glomerulopathy, over the past decade, a rapidly accumulating body of evidence has shown a role for complement activation in multiple other kidney diseases, including diabetic nephropathy and several glomerulonephritides. The number of available complement inhibitor therapies has also increased during the same period. In 2022, Kidney Diseases: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) convened a Controversies Conference, “The Role of Complement in Kidney Disease,” to address the expanding role of complement dysregulation in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of various glomerular diseases, diabetic nephropathy, and other forms of hemolytic uremic syndrome. Conference participants reviewed the evidence for complement playing a primary causal or secondary role in progression for several disease states and considered how evidence of complement involvement might inform management. Participating patients with various complement-mediated diseases and caregivers described concerns related to life planning, implications surrounding genetic testing, and the need for inclusive implementation of effective novel therapies into clinical practice. The value of biomarkers in monitoring disease course and the role of the glomerular microenvironment in complement response were examined, and key gaps in knowledge and research priorities were identified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":17801,"journal":{"name":"Kidney international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253824003892/pdfft?md5=5c59a8f0c7de31611c00c963250cad06&pid=1-s2.0-S0085253824003892-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}