OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clinical Nephrology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Serum interleukin-6 levels predict kidney disease progression in diabetic nephropathy	26
A generic method for analysis of plasma concentrations	15
Coagulation parameters may predict clinical outcomes in patients with septic acute kidney injury	14
De novo or recurrent glomerulonephritis and acute tubulointerstitial nephritis after COVID-19 vaccination: A report of six cases from a single center	14
Comparative efficacy of ravulizumab and eculizumab in the treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome: An indirect comparison using clinical trial data	13
The unresolved epidemic of chronic kidney disease of uncertain origin (CKDu) around the world: A review and new insights	11
Tocilizumab preserves renal function in rheumatoid arthritis with AA amyloidosis and end-stage kidney disease: Two case reports	11
Outcomes of COVID-19-positive kidney transplant recipients: A single-center experience	10
Schistosomiasis-associated glomerulopathy: Clinical aspects, pathological characteristics, and renal outcomes	10
Kidney oxalate crystal deposition in adult patients: A relatively common finding	10
Principles responsible for trace element concentrations in chronic kidney disease	9
Hypophosphatemia and FGF23 tumor-induced osteomalacia in two cases of metastatic breast cancer	9
Point-of-care venous Doppler ultrasound in the management of heart failure and hyponatremia	9
Efficacy of abatacept treatment for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and minimal change disease: A systematic review of case reports, case series, and observational studies	9
Combined aerobic resistance exercise improves dialysis adequacy and quality of life in patients on maintenance hemodialysis	8
Living well with kidney disease by patient and care-partner empowerment: Kidney health for everyone everywhere	8
Tolvaptan vs. somatostatin in the treatment of ADPKD: A review of the literature	8
Acute interstitial nephritis following SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccination	8
Predictors of renal outcomes in crescentic and mixed class of ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis	8
Bevacizumab-associated thrombotic microangiopathy treated with eculizumab: A case series and systematic review of the literature	8
Vascular injury and COVID-19-related mortality: What lies below the tip of the iceberg?	7
Acute interstitial nephritis following treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents in hepatitis C virus-infected patients: A case series	7
Harnessing Twitter polls for multi-specialty collaboration in standardizing point-ofcare ultrasonography in nephrology	7
Gender in acute kidney disease: A narrative review	7
IgG4-related kidney disease: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment	6

Need for symptom monitoring in IgA nephropathy patients post COVID-19 vaccination	6
Mortality and serum hepcidin are associated with persistent and transient acute kidney injury in septic patients	6
Serum levels of plasminogen activator urokinase receptor and cardiotrophin-like cytokine factor 1 in patients with nephrotic syndrome	6
Syphilis-associated membranous nephropathy successfully treated with amoxicillin	6
Fatigue in hemodialysis patients:  A single-center cross-sectional study	5
Characteristics and outcomes of prisoners hospitalized due to COVID-19 disease	5
COVID-19 and the kidney: A South African state healthcare experience	5
Infection-related glomerulonephritis mimicking lupus nephritis	5
Changes and significance of Treg and Th17 in adult patients with primary membranous nephropathy	5
Lung ultrasound, hemoglobin, and NT-proBNP in peritoneal dialysis patients	5
Genetic analysis of SLC12A3 gene and diagnostic process in patients with Gitelman syndrome	5
Persistent urinary phosphate wasting in a patient with metastatic breast cancer: What’s your diagnosis?	5
Serum albumin predicts hyperuricemia in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy	5
Differential effects of peritoneal and hemodialysis on circulating regulatory T cells one month post initiation of renal replacement therapy	5
Diagnosis and genotype-phenotype correlation in patients with PKD1/TSC2 contiguous gene deletion syndrome	5
A case of extreme hyperphosphatemia due to sodium phosphate enemas successfully treated with sustained low efficiency dialysis	5
A case of thrombotic microangiopathy associated with polymyositis	5
A case of membranous nephropathy with Kimura’s disease	4
Renovascular hypertension and RNF213 p.R4810K variant in Korean children with Moyamoya disease	4
Arterial stiffness and kidney disease progression in the systolic blood pressure intervention trial	4
Characteristics, maternal and neonatal outcomes of acute kidney injury in preeclampsia: A prospective, single-center study	4
Fluid overload is an independent predictor of atrial fibrillation in end-stage renal disease: A prospective study using insertable cardiac and body composition monitors	4
Clinicopathological profile and outcomes of infection-related glomerulonephritis in adults	4
Renal histological continuum of TAFRO syndrome: A case report and literature review	4
Severe eosinophilic peritonitis caused by intraperitoneal vancomycin administration	4
Doubts about the efficacy of tolvaptan for polycystic kidney disease	4
Regional citrate anticoagulation protocol suitable for intermittent hemodialysis and post-dilution hemodiafiltration	4
A unique case of purple urine: A case report and literature review	4
Nephrotic syndrome in the setting of LECT2 amyloidosis: Take a look at the podocyte	4
Prospective observational study of purse-string suturing of the anterior rectus fascia for urgent-start peritoneal dialysis	4
From Bartter’s syndrome to renal tubular acidosis in a patient with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: A case report	4
Malignancy-induced lactic acidosis in adult lymphoma	4
Safety and efficacy of placement of tunneled hemodialysis catheter without the use of fluoroscopy	4
Assessment of volume status with bioimpendance prior to hemodialysis and its importance for predicting survival in hemodialysis patients	4
Allopurinol-induced acute kidney injury and DRESS syndrome without eosinophilia: A case report	4
Symptomatic hyponatremia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus disease-19 vaccination	4
AA renal amyloidosis: Clinical observations over 20 years	4
Urinary biomarkers to predict acute kidney damage and mortality in COVID-19	4
Non-obstructive coronary angiogram findings prior to kidney transplantation do not predict post-transplant cardiac events	4
Optimization of isolation protocol and characterization of urinary extracellular vesicles as biomarkers of kidney allograft injury	4
Cystatin C and arterial stiffness in patients without chronic kidney disease	3
Concomitant monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease and crystalglobulin-induced nephropathy with a membranoproliferative pattern of glomerular injury	3
The impact of kidney function on survival in elderly patients diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia	3
Volume status and arterial stiffness evaluation in peritoneal dialysis patients	3
Glucocorticoid pathway polymorphisms and diabetes after kidney transplantation	3
Hematuria after COVID-19 vaccination: A case report	3
Treatment of preeclampsia at extremely preterm gestation with therapeutic plasma exchange	3
Acute kidney injury after Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine due to crescentic fibrillary glomerulonephritis	3
Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease: Treatment outcome of cyclophosphamide vs. rituximab induction therapy regimen	3
Effect of chronic kidney disease and sex on carotid and femoral plaque volume as measured by three-dimensional ultrasound	3

Retrospective single-arm cohort study of steroid-dependent minimal change nephrotic syndrome treated with very low-dose rituximab	3
Defining 24-hour urine parameters and kidney stone risk of student athletes	3
FGF-23 and sclerostin in serum and bone of CKD patients	3
Body composition obtained by bioelectrical impedance with a nutritional questionnaire in children with chronic kidney disease, obesity, or hypertension	3
Developing and validating a risk score model for prediction of acute kidney injury in non-ICU hospitalized patients	3
An atypical anti-GBM disease complicated by idiopathic nodular glomerulosclerosis: Case report	3
Long-term renal outcomes of IgA nephropathy presenting with different levels of proteinuria	3
Abatacept as an alternative therapy for the treatment of drug-intolerant lupus nephritis: A case of underlying monosomy 1p36 deletion syndrome	3
Nomenclature for Kidney Function and Disease: Executive Summary and Glossary From a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference	3
Prevalence of the NPHS2 variants p.R229Q, p.A242V, and p.R138Q in patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis	2
Pre-transplant AT1R antibodies and long-term outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with a functioning graft for more than 5 years	2
Comparison of bone mineral density and biochemical factors in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients	2
Can ferric citrate lead to iron overload in peritoneal dialysis patients?	2
The drivers of non-adherence to albuminuria testing guidelines and the clinical and economic impact of not identifying chronic kidney disease	2
Weight-reduction and changes in renal function in CKD patients participating in a conservative multimodal obesity program	2
A cross-sectional study of antibodies to ubiquitin proteasome system in different glomerulopathies	2
Impact of obesity on vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease	2
An auspicious triumph of recovery from dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury in COVID-19 in a patient with chronic kidney disease, α-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and liver transplant: A case report	2
Gabapentinoid dosing and adverse events in patients with chronic kidney disease	2
Acute kidney damage in COVID-19 patients	2
Atherosclerosis-calcification score and predictors of intra-dialytic hypotension	2
Late onset granulomatous interstitial nephritis after booster dose of COVID-19 vaccination: Case report and review of literature	2
Acute renal failure with severe loin pain and patchy renal vasoconstriction in a patient with march hemoglobinuria	2
Serum sickness induced by alemtuzumab in a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient	2
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia after switching from unfractionated heparin to low-molecular-weight heparin: A case report and literature review	2
Acute kidney injury in renal trauma patients	2
COVID-19 in chronic hemodialysis patients: A report of 9 cases in Madrid, Spain	2
One-year all-cause mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis	2
The predictive value of cystatin C combined with lactic acid and uric acid in the occurrence of acute kidney injury in sepsis	2
Unusual ischemic kidney injury presenting as slowly declining graft function and successful use of oral desmopressin in a kidney transplant recipient with subclinical central diabetes insipidus	2
Early life exposure to the Chinese Famine of 1959 – 1961 is an independent risk factor of adulthood elevated homocysteine, hyperuricemia, high LDL, and hypertension	2
To what extent can we achieve mineral bone metabolism treatment targets suggested by the KDIGO guidelines among chronic kidney disease stage 3 – 5 non-dialysis patients?	2
The value of urine cell cycle arrest biomarkers to predict persistent acute kidney injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Association between anti-complement factor H antibodies and renal outcome in primary membranous nephropathy	2
A real-world, single-center experience of the utilization of hepatitis C-viremic kidneys for hepatitis C-negative recipients	2
Calcineurin inhibitors and renal biopsy in children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome	2
Effect of renin-angiotensin system blockers on contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients with normal or mild-to-moderate reduced kidney function undergoing coronary angiography: A systematic re	2
Hemostasis assessment with standard coagulation tests and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) during therapeutic plasma exchange treatment	2
A single-center experience of post-transplant atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome	2
Characteristics of renal sarcoidosis and tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome in Slovenia: An analysis of the national renal biopsy registry and patient datasets in the last decade	2
Comparison of cystatin C and creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate equations among elderly chronic kidney disease patients attending a tertiary care hospital: A prospective cross-secti	2
The relationship between glycemic control and osteocalcin, type 1 collagen C-terminal telopeptide, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase and the effects of anti-diabetic regimens on circulating markers o	2
Renal involvement in familial Mediterranean fever in an Algerian population	2
Outcomes of palliative care consultation in patients with ESRD who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation	2
Water avoidance and modification of exit-site care with stoma bag results in reduced exit-site infection rate in peritoneal dialysis patients	2
Free vitamin D is independently associated with systolic blood pressure in diabetic patients with impaired kidney function	2
COVID-19: Nephrology preparedness checklist	2
Acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with febrile urinary tract infections: A prospective observational study	2
Application of simplified regional citrate anticoagulation in hemodialysis patients with high risk of bleeding	2
Going to war with COVID-19: Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 management in the Padua Nephrology and Dialysis Unit’s hemodialysis facility	2
Lower response to denosumab in diabetes patients on hemodialysis	2
Abdominal aortic calcification as prognostic marker in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis	2
Uromodulin – a new marker of kidney function?	2
Nephrotic syndrome of minimal change disease following exposure to mercury-containing skin lightening cream: A case report and literature review	2
The therapeutic effect of plasma exchange on ANCA-associated vasculitis: A meta-analysis	2
Incidence and risk factors for acute kidney injury in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices undergoing transvenous lead removal	2
Familial polycystic kidneys with no genetic confirmation: Are we sure it is ADPKD?	2
Two cases of fetal hyperechogenic kidneys who had HNF1-β gene variation	2
Mortality and differential predictive factors of transient and persistent sepsis-associated acute kidney injury	2
Relationship of serum albumin at initiation of incident peritoneal dialysis with cardiovascular and overall survival	2
The relevance of performing 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and pulse wave analysis in kidney transplant recipients	2
Tumoral calcinosis due to severe hyperphosphatemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism without vascular calcification in a hemodialysis patient	2