The battle of the acronyms!!! HIVAN (HIV-associated nephropathy) and HIVICK (HIV immune complex disease of the kidney) used to be perennial powerhouses garnering worldwide attention. Now they may be ...

HIVAN is a severe kind of kidney disease that can affect people living with HIV. It’s associated with a high viral load and low CD4 count and can rapidly lead to kidney failure. Treatment involves ...

As chairman of the Samuel F. Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Klotman has been studying the kidney for almost 30 years. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the kidney diseases ...

The risk factors associated with HIVAN were best described in one of the largest series of patients with biopsy-proven HIVAN, published recently.[16] Although the results may be affected by bias ...

New data collected at Columbia University Medical Center and by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine are helping researchers understand the extent to which a certain protein - NGAL - can play a ...

Widespread use of antiretroviral therapy has led to a change in the spectrum of renal pathologies associated with HIV infection The incidence of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) has decreased since ...

New data are helping researchers understand the extent to which a certain protein -- NGAL -- can play a significant role in marking chronic kidney disease resulting from HIV while at the same time ...