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Gabriel Contreras

Researcher at University of Miami

Publications -  111
Citations -  9280

Gabriel Contreras is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kidney disease & Lupus nephritis. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 103 publications receiving 8058 citations. Previous affiliations of Gabriel Contreras include Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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Intensity of renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury

Paul M. Palevsky, +207 more
TL;DR: Intensive renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury did not decrease mortality, improve recovery of kidney function, or reduce the rate of nonrenal organ failure as compared with less-intensive therapy.
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Mycophenolate Mofetil versus Cyclophosphamide for Induction Treatment of Lupus Nephritis

Gerald B. Appel, +98 more
TL;DR: Although most patients in both treatment groups experienced clinical improvement, the study did not meet its primary objective of showing that MMF was superior to IVC as induction treatment for lupus nephritis.
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Sequential therapies for proliferative lupus nephritis

TL;DR: For patients with proliferative lupus nephritis, short-term therapy with intravenous cyclophosphamide followed by maintenance therapy with mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine appears to be more efficacious and safer than long-term Therapy with intravenously cycloph phosphamide.
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Intensive blood-pressure control in hypertensive chronic kidney disease.

TL;DR: Overall analyses, intensive blood-pressure control had no effect on kidney disease progression, however, there may be differential effects of intensiveBlood pressure control in patients with and those without baseline proteinuria, as well as according to the baseline level of proteinuria.