Month: August 2017

V KHELGI1, 2, A GUPTA1, 2, A MAHER1, AND S GOVINDARAJULU1, 2 1Renal service, Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, Toowoomba, Queensland; 2Rural School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland Background: Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is a potentially fatal opportunistic infection caused...
  • 9 August 2017
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JE HERON1, BL NEUEN1, SJ CHADBAN1,2 1Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW; 2Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Background: The epidemiology and natural history of recurrent diabetic nephropathy following kidney transplantation are not well described....
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K MANERA1,2, C HANSON1,2, J CHAPMAN3, J KANELLIS4,5, J GILL6, J CRAIG1,2, S CHADBAN7,8, G WONG1,2,3, A RALPH1,2, A TONG1,2 1Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW; 2Centre for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead,...
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J HA1,2, A HOFFMAN1, MA BROWN1,2 1Department of Renal Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales; 2St George & Sutherland Clinical School, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, New South Wales Aim: To compare the symptom burden of transplant and dialysis patients. Background:...
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S GLEESON1, J DE ZOYSA2, A TO3 1Renal Department, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand; 2Renal Department, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand; 3Cardiology Department, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand Aim: We prospectively examined computed tomography coronary angiogram (CCTA) use in...
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S CROCKER John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales Background: The use of intravenous thrombolysis has been demonstrated as efficacious and warranted in cases of haemodynamically unstable pulmonary embolism but a relative contraindication to use has traditionally been recent surgery within...
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S CROCKER John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales Background: Polyuria after renal transplantation especially with prevalent living donation is a common temporary phenomenon. Ongoing severe polyuria in previously anuric dialysis patients compounded by a small bladder capacity creates significant disruption...
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N AUNG1, G CHIN1 1Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia Aim: This study was to identify the difference in pre and post-donor nephrectomy’s creatinine/ eGFR and using LKDPI score to compare the quality of donor...
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N AGARWAL1, R DAVIS 2, J WONG 3, S STRASSER4, K KABLE5, G WONG5, B NANKIVELL5, K WYBURN 1,6 1Renal Department of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW; 2Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW;...
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B ZAHOROWSKA1, K ISMAIL2, G NARAYANAN1 1Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales; 2Department of Anatomical Pathology, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales Background: Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic infection predominately affecting individuals with immune deficiency and predisposing conditions including gastric...
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