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3 unusual facts about Kidney


Diagnostic electron microscopy

The TEM was first used extensively for this purpose in the 1980s, especially for identifying the markers of cell differentiation to identify tumours, and in renal disease.

Holospira

Kidney is very narrowly triangular, being wider at the base, tapering anteriorly, slightly longer than the pericardium.

The Longest Penalty Shot in the World

When Fernando Tejero was shooting in the movie for stopping a goal, he had to be hospitalised because he was injured and his Kidney was bleeding.


1960 in Scotland

30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplantation in the UK, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

African trypanosomiasis

Two independent variants of the APOL1 gene found in African haplotypes carrying signatures of natural selection have been shown to confer protection against the acute version of sleeping sickness caused by T. b. rhodesiense, while at the same time increasing risk of kidney disease when inherited from both parents.

Albert Scanlon

Scanlon was admitted to the Salford Royal hospital in Salford with kidney problems and pneumonia on 21 October 2009.

American Kidney Fund

In Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and select cities nationwide, the American Kidney Fund offers free kidney screenings to the public.

Antuan Simmons

While undergoing an MRI on his back in the summer of 2000, a series of tests determined that there were tumors in his chest and near his kidneys.

Canadian Organ Replacement Registry

The Canadian Organ Replacement Registry CORR is a health organisation was started by Canadian nephrologists and kidney transplant surgeons in 1985 in order to develop the care of patients with renal failure.

CFHR5 nephropathy

Complement factor H-related protein 5 (CFHR5) nephropathy (also known as Troodos nephropathy) is a form of inherited kidney disease which is endemic in Cyprus and is caused by a mutation in the gene CFHR5.

Creatinine

Creatine is synthesized primarily in the liver from the methylation of glycocyamine (guanidino acetate, synthesized in the kidney from the amino acids arginine and glycine) by S-adenosyl methionine.

Dakahlia Governorate

The Urology and Nephrology Center of Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine also features a renowned kidney center.

Darryl Neilson

Darryl sacrificed his kidney for his dying father and desperately tried to separate his mother Marj (Elizabeth McRae) from her lover Laurie (Chic Littlewood) through blackmail.

Dayton Daily News

The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories

:In the 1999 version of his OPV AIDS hypothesis, Edward Hooper proposed that early batches of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) grown in cultures of chimpanzee kidney cells, infected with a chimpanzee virus, were the original source of HIV-1 in Central Africa.

Effective arterial blood volume

The kidney mechanisms used to restore EABV include, (1) sympathetic nerve activity; (2) Atriopeptin (ANP) secretion from the atria; (3) Starling forces; (4) Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

ESL Incorporated

The company developed the first software for interpreting renal isograms in the diagnosis of Renovascular hypertension, working in conjunction with physicians practicing in the kidney disease diagnostics field.

Flavio Ortega

Ortega died of a respiratory disorder, which added to kidney failure both results from a brain haemorrhage, in 2007 in San Pedro Sula.

Gigi Leung

On March 30, 2010, she blogged about the unjustly jailed Zhao Lianhai, who has a five-year-old son who fell victim to the poison milk and developed kidney stones, the father-turned-activist began to utilise various means to voice his grievances.

Grant Kereama

In 2005 it was revealed that Kereama was the donor of a kidney for former All Black, Jonah Lomu.

Gypsophila

It contains several brown or black seeds which are often shaped like a kidney or a snail shell.

Harrison family of Virginia

J. Hartwell Harrison (1909-1984), third great grand nephew of Benjamin V, of Boston, collaborated in the first kidney transplant in 1954.

John Force

Force had a cameo in a 2004 episode of King of the Hill ("Dale Be Not Proud"), in which Dale Gribble donates a kidney to Force, after which it appears he does not need it.

Joseph W. Eschbach

On September 26, 2007 the Northwest Kidney Centers based in Seattle, WA and Kirin-Amgen announced an honorary gift to the University of Washington Division of Nephrology to establish the Joseph W. Eschbach Endowed Chair in Kidney Research.

K. Pathmanaban

Datuk K. Pathmanaban died due to kidney and liver failure at the Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur at around 1am on June 9, 2001.

Kendall Hart

Del urges Kendall to let go of her revenge schemes, recognizing the good in her, and Kendall supports him as he prepares for and undergoes a transplant operation later in December 1994, receiving a kidney donated by his sister, Dixie Cooney.

Kenny Easley

Easley received a new kidney two years later at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Easley filed a lawsuit against the Seahawks, their team trainer, and the team doctors stating that an overdose of Advil (ibuprofen) for an ankle injury a few years before was the cause of his kidney failure.

Kidney Research UK

Kidney Research UK are one of the UK charities who take part in World Kidney Day each year to try to raise awareness of the rising threat of kidney disease.

Larry Kidney

Larry Kidney (born August 29, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American powerlifter.

Leukonychia

This may be a clinical sign of hypoalbuminaemia (low albumin), which can be seen in nephrotic syndrome (a form of kidney failure), liver failure, protein malabsorption and protein-losing enteropathies.

Lori Hartwell

Hartwell founded the Renal Support Network (RSN) in 1993 as an American nonprofit, kidney patient-focused, kidney patient-run organization to benefit individuals affected by CKD.

Mangal Raj Joshi

Dr. Joshi died in Kathmandu on 2 March 2005 from a combination of kidney problems and a heart attack, according to his son, Dr. Badri Raj Joshi, B.A., M.S.C. (Predictive Astrology), Ph.D., PGA.

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), also known as Nadiad Kidney Hospital, is a not-for-profit Trust Hospital in Nadidad, Gujarat, established in 1978, and is the first speciality Urology Hospital in India.

Orvin Cabrera

Cabrera died in San Pedro Sula on 28 September 2010, following a two-year battle with kidney cancer.

Paradise, California

Actress Carla Gugino lived in Paradise after a kidney operation when she was four years old.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun is a volunteer for Angel Flight and, on December 6, 2010, assisted in the first nationally arranged kidney paired-donation in which kidneys were flown from Lebanon, New Hampshire to St. Louis and vice versa.

Ravan Raaj: A True Story

Ravan Raaj: A True Story is a 1995 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by T.Rama Rao, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo, and Aditya Pancholi and is centred around kidney smugglers and a serial killer.

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet

He presented his findings in 1842 in his paper "On the Structure and Use of the Malpighian Bodies of the Kidney" to the Royal Society and was awarded the Royal Medal.

Tadeusz Nalepa

Nalepa became very ill in the recent years and he had to be dialised because of the kidney problem.

Terry Mercer

Mercer has been an administrator and fundraiser for numerous charitable organizations such as the Kidney Foundation of Canada, St. John Ambulance, the Nova Scotia Lung Association, the YMCA and the Canadian Diabetes Association and is currently Past Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Foundation for Philanthropy in Canada.

Texas Oilman's Bass Invitational

The money raised supports patient care and research in pediatric kidney and urinary tract diseases and disorders.

The Kwartet

Tempura and Kidney Stones featured the hit single The Longest Time, a Billy Joel cover.

The Numbers Band

The Golden Palominos did their own rendition of the Kidney composition "The Animal Speaks" from Jimmy Bell in 1985.

Trench fever

Chloramphenicol is an alternative medication recommended under circumstances that render tetracycline derivates usage undesirable (such as severe liver malfunction, kidney deficiency, in children under nine years and pregnant women).

UC Irvine Medical Center

Ms. Irvine, who had liver and kidney disease, had 95 organs offered for transplant by the United Network for Organ Sharing during her stay at UCI.

Vero cell

The Vero lineage was isolated from kidney epithelial cells extracted from an African green monkey (Chlorocebus sp.; formerly called Cercopithecus aethiops, this group of monkeys has been split into several different species).

Vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein

Calbindin-D9k (S100G) is found in mammalian intestine and calbindin-D28k is in avian intestine and in mammalian kidney and other tissues.

WAGR syndrome

WAGR syndrome is a rare genetic syndrome in which affected children are predisposed to develop Wilms tumour (a tumour of the kidneys), Aniridia (absence of the coloured part of the eye, the iris), Genitourinary anomalies, and Retardation.

Wain McFarlane

On March 10, 2007, Soul Asylum, Cyndi Lauper, Mint Condition, and Lifehouse hosted a benefit concert to raise money for his kidney transplant.


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