Marta Figueiredo, PhD,  Managing Science Editor—

Marta holds a biology degree, a master’s in evolutionary and developmental biology, and a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She was awarded a research scholarship and a PhD scholarship, and her research focused on the role of several signaling pathways in thymus and parathyroid glands embryonic development. She also previously worked as an assistant professor of an annual one-week embryology course at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.

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January 15, 2018 News by Marta Figueiredo, PhD

High-dose Glucocorticoid Pulses May Improve Severe Kidney Condition of AAV Patients, Study Indicates

Patients with severe kidney injury stemming from anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) may benefit from intravenous glucocorticoid pulses, a study indicates. The high-dose treatment helped Chinese patients get off dialysis and showed a tendency toward  increasing their survival, researchers found. They published their findings in the journal BMC Nephrology.

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