A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung ...

vesicoureteral reflux (with or without renal scarring), chronic renal obstruction from congenital or acquired causes, or systemic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and nephrosclerosis.

In these infants the frequency of renal scarring did not differ between those treated in the first 24 hours, and those treated later (46% vs 54%), suggesting that while early antibiotic therapy ...

This damage obstructs the kidneys from filtering waste and can lead to kidney scarring, reduced function, and in severe cases, kidney failure. Diabetes can also mess with a person’s blood ...

“My project investigates a candidate protein receptor that potentially plays a critical role in inducing kidney inflammation and scarring as a result of lupus nephritis. If significant in mediating ...