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Usama A Sharaf El Din
Researcher at Cairo University
Publications - 32
Citations - 1015
Usama A Sharaf El Din is an academic researcher from Cairo University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kidney disease & Renal function. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 28 publications receiving 769 citations.
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Treatment of Fabry’s Disease with the Pharmacologic Chaperone Migalastat
Dominique P. Germain,Derralynn Hughes,Kathleen Nicholls,Daniel G. Bichet,Roberto Giugliani,William R. Wilcox,Claudio Feliciani,Suma P. Shankar,Fatih Süheyl Ezgü,Hernan Amartino,Drago Bratkovic,Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen,Khan Nedd,Usama A Sharaf El Din,Charles Marques Lourenço,Maryam Banikazemi,Joel Charrow,Majed Dasouki,David N. Finegold,P Giraldo,Ozlem Goker-Alpan,Nicola Longo,C. Ronald Scott,Roser Torra,Ahmad Tuffaha,Ana Jovanovic,Stephen Waldek,Seymour Packman,Elizabeth Ludington,Christopher Viereck,John Kirk,Julie Yu,Elfrida R. Benjamin,Franklin K. Johnson,David J. Lockhart,Nina Skuban,Jeff Castelli,Jay A. Barth,Carrolee Barlow,Raphael Schiffmann,Raphael Schiffmann +40 more
TL;DR: Among all randomly assigned patients with Fabry's disease (with mutant α-galactosidase forms that were suitable or not suitable for migalastat therapy), the percentage of patients who had a response at 6 months did not differ significantly between the migAlastat group and the placebo group.
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Uric acid in the pathogenesis of metabolic, renal, and cardiovascular diseases: A review
TL;DR: The association between uric acid (UA) and systemic hypertension (Htn), dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, overweight, fatty liver, renal disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD) on the other side is well recognized as discussed by the authors.
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Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) is independently correlated to aortic calcification in haemodialysis patients
Mohamed M. NasrAllah,Amal R. El-Shehaby,Mona M Salem,Noha A. Osman,Esam El Sheikh,Usama A Sharaf El Din +5 more
TL;DR: In haemodialysis patients, F GF-23 and ACI were significantly increased, and FGF-23 was independently associated with aortic calcification.
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The Association between Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Vascular Calcification Is Mitigated by Inflammation Markers.
Mohamed M. NasrAllah,Amal R. El-Shehaby,Noha A. Osman,Tarek Fayad,Amr Nassef,Mona M Salem,Usama A Sharaf El Din +6 more
TL;DR: F GF-23 is strongly correlated to various markers of inflammation and oxidative stress in hemodialysis patients and the association between FGF-23 and vascular calcification was mitigated when corrected for inflammation markers.
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Diabetic nephropathy: Time to withhold development and progression - A review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the recent advances in understanding the pathogenesis, diagnosis, the established and the potential renoprotective therapeutic agents that would prevent the development or the progression of diabetic nephropathy.