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 associationFeeding the Kidney Researcher Pipeline through R25-NIDDK Funded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships: A Student Perspective
Wilson EM, Lipp SN, Brady CT, Ishibe S, Romero MF. Feeding the Kidney Researcher Pipeline through R25-NIDDK Funded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships: A Student Perspective. Kidney360 2022, 3: 546-549. PMID: 35582187, PMCID: PMC9034802, DOI: 10.34067/kid.0001272021.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInflammatory 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
Elucidating measures of systemic racism to mitigate racial disparities in kidney transplantation
Wilson E, Chen A, Johnson M, Perkins J, Purnell T. Elucidating measures of systemic racism to mitigate racial disparities in kidney transplantation. Current Opinion In Organ Transplantation 2021, 26: 554-559. PMID: 34456271, DOI: 10.1097/mot.0000000000000913.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsKidney transplantationRacial disparitiesNon-Hispanic whitesRacial disparities persistKidney transplantKidney failureTransplantationPromising interventionDisparities persistCurrent interventionsHispanic individualsRelevant interventionsInterventionSocioeconomic factorsHigh rateRecent national attentionSustainable interventionsImpactful interventionsRecent findingsExcretion 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 studiesSurgeryPhysiologyExcretionDiseaseHuman kidney stones: a natural record of universal biomineralization
Sivaguru M, Saw J, Wilson E, Lieske J, Krambeck A, Williams J, Romero M, Fouke K, Curtis M, Kear-Scott J, Chia N, Fouke B. Human kidney stones: a natural record of universal biomineralization. Nature Reviews Urology 2021, 18: 404-432. PMID: 34031587, DOI: 10.1038/s41585-021-00469-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHot spring depositsCalcium-rich mineralsFields of geologyFundamental natural processesBillions of yearsDisequilibrium precipitationParagenetic sequenceConcentric zoningDeep subsurfaceNatural recordsSector zoneRoman aqueductCoral reefsNatural processesBroad length scalesCrystal aggregatesIndividual stonesHydroxyapatite spherulesThermodynamic energeticsOrders of magnitudeNew transdisciplinary approachDissolutionTotal volumeRecrystallizationStratigraphyIn Vivo Entombment of Bacteria and Fungi during Calcium Oxalate, Brushite, and Struvite Urolithiasis.
Saw J, Sivaguru M, Wilson E, Dong Y, Sanford R, Fields C, Cregger M, Merkel A, Bruce W, Weber J, Lieske J, Krambeck A, Rivera M, Large T, Lange D, Bhattacharjee A, Romero M, Chia N, Fouke B. In Vivo Entombment of Bacteria and Fungi during Calcium Oxalate, Brushite, and Struvite Urolithiasis. Kidney360 2021, 2: 298-311. PMID: 35373025, PMCID: PMC8740987, DOI: 10.34067/kid.0006942020.Peer-Reviewed Original Research