ABSTRACT Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide. New onset diabetes post renal transplantation is associated with reduced graft function, ...

Introduction: Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) has replaced Azathioprine (AZA) in immunosuppressive regimens worldwide in the prevention of acute allograft rejection. Whether long term treatment with MMF is superior to treatment ...

This paper spans two temporal locations - on the one hand it holds the historical events of indentured labour in the then British Colony of Natal in the 19th century in mind, on the other is the contemporary photographic ...

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality among CKD patients, responsible for 40-50 % of all-cause mortality in CKD. Chronic kidney disease patients have been shown to be more likely ...

This study reports a review of biopsy-confirmed renal pathology from Soweto Gauteng. A retrospective analysis was conducted of 1848 adult native renal biopsy reports from Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital from 1 ...

An original and uniquely created electronic semi-structured questionnaire was piloted and then sent out using the secure, web-based Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), programme hosted at the University of ...

When a woman is killed she is most likely to be murdered by an intimate partner. This form of homicide known as intimate femicide is conceptualised to be the most extreme consequence of intimate partner violence. Not much ...

Background: Both CAKUT and UTI can independently cause renal insufficiency with ultimate progression to ESRD, and CAKUT is a well-documented risk factor for UTI in children. Aim: To describe CAKUT in a cohort of children, ...

South Africa has a femicide rate that is six times the world average. Over 2,500 women aged 14 years or older are murdered every year, the majority of these women killed by an intimate partner. Despite the prevalence of ...