2022
Safety and Adequacy of Kidney Biopsy Procedure in Patients with Obesity
Qian L, Menez S, Hu D, Weinstein J, Melchinger H, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Luciano R, Turner J, Perazella M, Villalobos C, Shaw M, Wilson F, Parikh C, Moledina D. Safety and Adequacy of Kidney Biopsy Procedure in Patients with Obesity. Kidney360 2022, 4: 98-101. PMID: 36700910, PMCID: PMC10101611, DOI: 10.34067/kid.0006602022.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
Development and external validation of a diagnostic model for biopsy-proven acute interstitial nephritis using electronic health record data
Moledina DG, Eadon MT, Calderon F, Yamamoto Y, Shaw M, Perazella MA, Simonov M, Luciano R, Schwantes-An TH, Moeckel G, Kashgarian M, Kuperman M, Obeid W, Cantley LG, Parikh CR, Wilson FP. Development and external validation of a diagnostic model for biopsy-proven acute interstitial nephritis using electronic health record data. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2021, 37: 2214-2222. PMID: 34865148, PMCID: PMC9755995, DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfab346.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute interstitial nephritisInterstitial nephritisUrine biomarkersBiopsy-proven acute interstitial nephritisElectronic health record dataExternal validation cohortTypical clinical featuresBlood urea nitrogenTumor necrosis factorCharacteristic curve analysisHealth record dataExternal validationElectronic health recordsAIN diagnosisModest AUCsSerum creatinineCreatinine ratioKidney biopsyClinical featuresValidation cohortNecrosis factorUnrecognized casesInterleukin-9PatientsUrea nitrogen
2019
Urine TNF-α and IL-9 for clinical diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis
Moledina DG, Wilson FP, Pober JS, Perazella MA, Singh N, Luciano RL, Obeid W, Lin H, Kuperman M, Moeckel GW, Kashgarian M, Cantley LG, Parikh CR. Urine TNF-α and IL-9 for clinical diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis. JCI Insight 2019, 4: e127456. PMID: 31092735, PMCID: PMC6542610, DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.127456.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute interstitial nephritisAcute kidney diseasePrebiopsy diagnosisKidney biopsyKidney diseaseIL-9AIN diagnosisUrine TNFInterstitial nephritisSpecific T cell subsetsAcute tubular injuryDiabetic kidney diseaseIL-9 levelsTNF-α levelsT cell subsetsAddition of biomarkersPlasma cytokinesCytokine levelsTubular injuryHighest quartileMultivariable analysisCell subsetsUrinary TNFBlood eosinophilsGlomerular disease
2018
Kidney Biopsy–Related Complications in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Kidney Disease
Moledina DG, Luciano RL, Kukova L, Chan L, Saha A, Nadkarni G, Alfano S, Wilson FP, Perazella MA, Parikh CR. Kidney Biopsy–Related Complications in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Kidney Disease. Clinical Journal Of The American Society Of Nephrology 2018, 13: 1633-1640. PMID: 30348813, PMCID: PMC6237071, DOI: 10.2215/cjn.04910418.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute kidney diseaseBiopsy-related complicationsLow platelet countHospitalized patientsNonhospitalized patientsKidney biopsyKidney diseasePlatelet countHigher BUNFemale sexRisk factorsLarge-sized hematomaStage 1 AKIRate of complicationsProcedure-related bleedingLarger needle gaugeAbdominal ultrasonographyBiopsy cohortBlood transfusionAngiographic interventionMultivariable analysisPostbiopsy complicationsMultivariable associationsHigh riskTransfusion