Eight-year-old Austin cycling 96 miles from St Annes to Sheffield to say thank you for his hospital care By Tony Durkin READ ORIGINAL STORY HERE A grateful eight-year-old boy is set to cycle the 96 miles from his Fylde home to Sheffield Children’s Hospital to say thank you for his ongoing specialist care. [...]
Awake patients can have kidney stones moved, blasted See original Story Here Ultrasound can be used to move, reposition or break up kidney stones, all while the patient is awake, a new study finds. A new technique which combines the use of two ultrasound technologies may offer an option to move kidney stones [...]
Cystinuria and cystinosis are usually related to L-cystine: is this really the case for cystinosis? A physicochemical investigation at micrometre and nanometre scale READ FULL STORY HERE DOWNLOAD PDF HERE Abstract Medical literature indicates clearly that cystinuria and cystinosis, two severe genetic pathologies, are related to the presence of abnormal L-cystine deposits. While L-cystine [...]
Cystinuria Market to Witness Notable Growth by 2030 I know this is mostly for investors and not people with Cysntiuria, but It's still interesting.... :) Maybe we should invest? Original Article HERE Reports And Data The Global Cystinuria Market report is a concise summary of the Cystinuria industry and offers deep insights into [...]
Cystinuria in Pregnancy READ FULL STORY HERE When cystinuria leads to calculi, stones, getting stuck within the urinary tract, this results in pain in the flank, upper abdomen, or the back. Typically, the pain advances to the lower abdomen or the groin and you also may suffer from urinary urgency/frequency, nausea and vomiting, [...]
Ca2+-mediated higher-order assembly of heterodimers in amino acid transport system b0,+ biogenesis and cystinuria READ FULL STORY HERE Abstract Cystinuria is a genetic disorder characterized by overexcretion of dibasic amino acids and cystine, causing recurrent kidney stones and kidney failure. Mutations of the regulatory glycoprotein rBAT and the amino acid transporter b0,+AT, which [...]
Shedding light on the mechanisms of cystinuria Calcium ions tie cystine transporters for correct trafficking and function A team from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics (Frankfurt am Main), The Jikei University School of Medicine (Tokyo) and Nara Medical University (Nara) in Japan explored the molecular mechanisms of a genetic disease called cystinuria [...]
Living life to the fullest despite having Cystinuria If you hear Sophie Popham talk about Cystinuria, you might not think kidney stones are all that painful. Not because kidney stones don’t cause excruciating pain, but because the outgoing, energetic 15-year-old, who was diagnosed with Cystinuria less than two years ago, is more excited about [...]
Living with Cystinuria for 44 years, and I'm one of the lucky ones Bruce Weisberg has lived with Cystinuria for 44 years, and he says he is one of the lucky ones. Although he has undergone four surgeries, with two of them in the last four years, he says this is nothing compared to [...]
The antiviral effects of thiol drugs in COVID-19 A recent study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology investigated the effects of thiol drugs on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a multidimensional disease characterized by pneumonia progressing to respiratory [...]
