Fabienne Aregger

TL;DR: Although GFR improved in more than half of the patients, this benefit was associated with a risk of postinterventional AKI, and future investigations should define preventive measures of peri-procedural kidney injury.

TL;DR: Upregulation of the C-terminal fragment of filamin A is demonstrated for the first time in dilated aortic media of Marfan syndrome patients and the results present evidence that the cleavage of filamination A is highly likely the result of the protease calpain.

TL;DR: Both TEMS and PCMs deserve future investigations in dialysis patients because they increase intradialytic blood pressure and facilitate urea and phosphate removal when applied short term.

TL;DR: Chronic muscle membrane depolarization by hyperkalemia may account for some of the functional deficits in uremic myopathy, and consistent normalization of membrane potential by avoiding hyperkAlemia may therefore reduce symptoms of 'uremic myopathy'.

TL;DR: Zinc-alpha-2-glycoprotein is a potentially useful predictive marker for acute kidney injury after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery and leads to increased urinary excretion of inflammatory proteins and markers of tubular injury.