Ford Hamann

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN) is a diverse glomerular disease with poor renal prognosis. The optimal therapeutic approach remains undetermined, as treatment outcomes vary across different studies.We retrospectively reviewed the medical data of 10 patients diagnosed with biopsy-proven FGN at our center between 2004 and 2019. Clinical and…[Read more]

Although there has been a tremendous change in the way diseases are diagnosed and treated, the ways in which health care delivery has been managed has seen very little change.Several academic studies have arisen in the area of service design, but an amalgamation of this research, especially in the area of healthcare services is not available. The…[Read more]

e prioritized to improve longitudinal outcomes after TAVR.Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome characterized by a sudden increase in blood pressure accompanied by proteinuria and/or maternal multi-system damage associated to poor fetal outcome. In early-onset preeclampsia, utero-placental perfusion is altered, causing constant and…[Read more]

Renovascular hypertension (RVH) is defined as an elevated blood pressure caused by kidney hypoperfusion, generally as a result of anatomic stenosis of the renal artery with consequent activation of the Renin Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. The main causes include genetic and inflammatory disorders, extrinsic compression, and idiopathic…[Read more]

Background Microbubbles are widely used as highly effective contrast agents to improve the diagnostic capability of ultrasound imaging. Mounting evidence suggests that ultrasound coupled with microbubbles has promising therapeutic applications in cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders by acting as gene or drug carriers. The aim of this…[Read more]