2022
Perceived Susceptibility to Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Self-Management among Black and White Live Kidney Donors.
Gianaris K, Vargas G, Johnson M, Yu Y, Wilson E, Perkins J, Jackson A, Boulware L, Massie A, Levan M, Segev D, Purnell T. Perceived Susceptibility to Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Self-Management among Black and White Live Kidney Donors. Ethnicity & Disease 2022, 32: 101-108. PMID: 35497403, PMCID: PMC9037644, DOI: 10.18865/ed.32.2.101.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLive kidney donorsChronic kidney diseaseKidney diseaseSelf-care behaviorsKidney donorsWhite donorsBlack donorsMultivariable logistic regression modelHypertension Self-ManagementLive kidney donationElectronic medical recordsSelf-care strategiesLogistic regression modelsFuture disease riskRace/ethnicityBlood pressureLive donorsMedical recordsKidney donationCare studiesYoung donorsHypertensionSociodemographic factorsHealth outcomesPotential associationInflammatory Cells in Nephrectomy Tissue from Patients without and with a History of Urinary Stone Disease
Dejban P, Wilson E, Jayachandran M, Hernandez L, Haskic Z, Wellik L, Sinha S, Rule A, Denic A, Koo K, Potretzke A, Lieske J. Inflammatory Cells in Nephrectomy Tissue from Patients without and with a History of Urinary Stone Disease. Clinical Journal Of The American Society Of Nephrology 2022, 17: 414-422. PMID: 35078782, PMCID: PMC8975022, DOI: 10.2215/cjn.11730921.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRadical nephrectomy specimensUrinary stone diseaseNonstone formersStone formersStone diseaseInflammatory cellsNephrectomy specimensM1 macrophagesM2 macrophagesT lymphocytesMast cellsVascular disease statusInflammatory cell populationsBody mass indexAnti-inflammatory macrophagesInflammatory cell patternsAccumulation of proinflammatoryTumor characteristicsMass indexKidney tissueDisease statusMedullaAbstractTextCortexCalcification
2021
Excretion of urine extracellular vesicles bearing markers of activated immune cells and calcium/phosphorus physiology differ between calcium kidney stone formers and non-stone formers
Zhang J, Kumar S, Jayachandran M, Herrera Hernandez L, Wang S, Wilson E, Lieske J. Excretion of urine extracellular vesicles bearing markers of activated immune cells and calcium/phosphorus physiology differ between calcium kidney stone formers and non-stone formers. BMC Nephrology 2021, 22: 204. PMID: 34074247, PMCID: PMC8170929, DOI: 10.1186/s12882-021-02417-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-stone formersCalcium oxalate stone formersUrinary extracellular vesiclesStone formersExtracellular vesiclesKidney stone formersUrinary stone diseaseStone removal surgeryDifferent nephron segmentsImmune cellsStone diseasePathogenic mechanismsRemoval surgeryNephron segmentsUrine samplesPhosphorus physiologyProtein markersPrevious studiesSurgeryPhysiologyExcretionDisease