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Donor smoking and recipient outcomes in kidney transplantation

December 17, 2015

I evaluated a young kidney donor candidate in clinic a few days ago and although he did not have any obvious medical issues and was an excellent candidate, he has been smoking half-a-pack a day of cigarettes for…

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“Idiopathic” or “smoking-related” nodular glomerulosclerosis

May 19, 2010

Nodular glomerulosclerosis refers to a histologic pattern of nodular mesangial sclerosis with accentuated, lobular-appearing glomeruli on renal biopsy. Although classically described in association with diabetes (the so-called “Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion”), the lesion is NOT pathognomonic for diabetic nephropathy. In…

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