We present a case of 52 year old male with an acute renal failure that took place 4 days after open transabdominal surgery repair of infrarenal abdominal aneurysm along with aneurysm of left common iliac artery and dilatation of left external iliac artery. Patient was subjected to 13 hemodialysis treatments that resulted in satisfactory recovery of renal function. One month after aneurysm repair he developed the right ureteral leak, consequently urinoma and acute renal failure once again. We suppose that ureteral leak was related to segmental ischemic necrosis of right ureter but not to traction or other iatrogenic ureteral injury. Percutaneous nephrostomy and insertion of ureteral stent was resulted in complete recovery of renal function.

AIM The effects of two immunosuppressive therapeutic protocols have been analyzed to evaluate the influence of treatments on the level of proteinuria, value of creatinine clearance and the level of serum albumin of patients with idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis (IMGN) and nephrotic syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 30 patients with IMGN and NS. In one group, patients were treated with corticosteroids in dose of 1 mg/kg of body weight for 4 weeks, followed by gradual reduction of dose to 0.5 mg/kg, in combination with one monthly pulses of cyclophosphamide i.v. in dose of 10 mg/kg for six months, followed by pulses treatment in three months intervals. In second group cyclosporine therapy was used in dose of 3-5 mg/kg, maintaining the medication serum level at 120 +/- 20 ng/ml. The research encompassed time period from 2000 to the end of 2007, while the parameters were tested every 2 months up to 24 months in total. RESULTS The obtained results showed that a significant reduction of proteinuria (p < 0.05) was reached in both analysed groups during the period from 6 to 9 months from the beginning of therapy. The preservation of the stabile status of the kidney function was attained as well as the insignificant variation in serum creatinine, before and after the therapy in both analysed groups. Decrease in average serum creatinine values in cyclophosphamide group (from 133.9 to 115.5 micromol/l) and the increase in the cyclosporine group (from 85.0 to 100.3 micromol/l) point to somewhat better preservation of kidney function in the cyclophosphamide group. Complete remission of nephrotic syndrome was achieved in 40% of the patients in the cyclophosphamide group, while 60% achieved partial remission. In 27% of the cyclosporine group patients complete remission was achieved, in 60% partial remission, while in 13% of them decrease of proteinuria without remission of the nephrotic syndrome. CONCLUSION The cyclophosphamide therapy, in combination with steroids, proved to be a good choice, whereas the cyclosporine therapy proved as a prosperous alternative in treatment of patients with IMGN.

AIM To evaluate relationship between echocardiography finding of LV mass and function and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plasma level in patients with chronic kidney disease on different type of treatment. METHODS We performed comparative examine on a parallel groups of kidney patients with no clinical signs of heart failure: 25 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD, creatinine klirens < 60 ml/min), 25 patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD), 34 patients on hemodialysis (HD) and 22 renal transplant patients. Each patient underwent echocardiography investigations and measured plasma level B-type natriuretic peptide. RESULTS It was determined that hemodialysis patients had higher value of left ventricular mass index (LVMI). The incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) progressive increased from CKD patients to HD patients (78.6% vs. 88.9%), as well as a plasma level of B-type natriuretic peptide (174.2 vs. 1020.2 pg/ml). There was a significant positive correlation between LVMI and BNP plasma level in CKD (p = 0.008) and HD patients (p = 0.001), as well as significant negative correlation between BNP plasma level and LV diastolicfunction in CKD patients (p = 0.002). CONCLUSION Plasma BNP concentration was elevated in renal dysfunction. Plasma BNP levels and the incidence of LVH were significantly grater in HD patients than in other renal patients. Significant positive correlation between plasma BNP level and LVMI suggested simultaneous influence of renal dysfunction and plasma BNP level on development of LV dysfunction.

Neuropsychiatric (NP) lupus and lupus nephritis are one of the most profound manifestations of the Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with wide variety of clinical manifestations. Especially NP lupus is the most poorly understood subset of the disease, and the most difficult therapeutic problem. We present case report of female SLE patient with the associated difficult and different clinical manifestations of central and peripheral nervous system disease end renal involvement. Agressive treatment option with intermittent pulsed intravenous cyclophosphamide and corticosteroids after the second month of treatment brought to complete remission of nephrotic syndrome. Improving of life-threating clinical manifestations of NP lupus was obtained after six months treatment by this immunosupressive therapy and included intravenous immunoglobulin 400 mg/kg body weight during five days monthly.