Dr. Andrew Rule, MD

• Nephrology

• Internal Medicine

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• University Of Washington / Harborview Medical Center

  Medical School

• Kidney Function After the First Kidney Stone Event, 2016-10-21

• Demographic and clinical characteristics associated with glomerular filtration rates in living kidney donors, 2009-02-11

• Quantification of asymptomatic kidney stone burden by computed tomography for predicting future symptomatic stone events, 2014-10-22

• Incorporating Cystatin C to Predict Methotrexate Elimination in Patients with CNS Lymphoma and Suspicious Renal Function, 2018-03-26

• The Sarcopenia Index is a simple objective screening tool for malnutrition in the critically ill, 2018-12-18

• In vivo techniques for determining nephron number, 2020-06-15

• GFR Estimation in Japan and China: What Accounts for the Difference?, 2009-03-12

• The changing incidence and presentation of urinary stones over three decades, 2018-02-14

• Urine But Not Serum Soluble Urokinase Receptor (suPAR) May Identify Cases of Recurrent FSGS in Kidney Transplant Candidates, 2013-08-27

• Short term tolvaptan increases water intake and effectively decreases urinary calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, and uric acid supersaturations, 2015-11-17

• Current Computed Tomography Techniques Can Detect Duct of Bellini Plugging but not Randall's Plaques, 2013-06-20

• Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Bladder Characteristics and Their Association with Prostate Size and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction among Men in the Community, 2009-08-03

• Troponin T as a predictor of end-stage renal disease and all-cause death among African-Americans and whites from hypertensive families, 2015-10-19

• Clinician perspectives on inpatient cystatin C utilization: A qualitative case study at Mayo Clinic, 2020-12-11

• Incidence of serum creatinine monitoring and outpatient visit follow-up among acute kidney injury survivors after discharge: a population-based cohort study, 2021-11-02

• Risk of kidney disease after living kidney donation, 2021-02-12

• Comprehensive Acute Kidney Injury Survivor Care: Protocol for the Randomized Acute Kidney Injury in Care Transitions Pilot Trial, 2023-05-22

• Kidney microstructural features at the time of donation predicts long-term risk of chronic kidney disease in living kidney donors, 2020-10-20

• No increase in the incidence of acute kidney injury in a population-based annual temporal trends epidemiology study, 2017-05-18

• Risk of Symptomatic Kidney Stones During and After Pregnancy, 2021-04-15

• Predictors of early mortality and readmissions among dialysis patients undergoing lower extremity amputation - data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, 2018-06-28

• Renal function outcomes and kidney biopsy features of living kidney donors with hypertension, 2021-03-30

• The Incidence of Primary versus Secondary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: A Clinicopathological Study, 2017-10-27

• Serum cystatin C predicts vancomycin trough levels better than serum creatinine in hospitalized patients: a cohort study, 2014-05-29

• Should we always defer treatment of kidney disease when there is extensive interstitial fibrosis on biopsy?, 2016-09-15

• Provider perspectives on beta-lactam therapeutic drug monitoring programs in the critically ill: a protocol for a multicenter mixed-methods study, 2021-03-24

• Characteristics of Renal Cystic and Solid Lesions Based on Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography of Potential Kidney Donors, 2012-03-06

• Kidney function and risk triage in adults: threshold values and hierarchical importance, 2010-08-18

• Obesity Correlates With Glomerulomegaly But Is Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction Early After Donation, 2015-02-01

• Using computer-assisted morphometrics of 5-year biopsies to identify biomarkers of late renal allograft loss, 2019-05-06

• Patterns of Cystatin C Uptake and Utilization Across and Within Hospitals, 2020-04-15

• Nephrotoxin Exposure in the 3 Years Following Hospital Discharge Predicts Development or Worsening of Chronic Kidney Disease Among Acute Kidney Injury Survivors, 2022-03-16

• Predictors of Symptomatic Kidney Stone Recurrence After the First and Subsequent Episodes, 2018-12-04

• Risk factor profile for chronic kidney disease is similar to risk factor profile for small artery disease, 2013-03-28

• Cystatin C: A Primer for Pharmacists, 2020-03-09

• Echocardiography Criteria for Structural Heart Disease in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Initiating Hemodialysis, 2016-03-15

• Stone composition among first-time symptomatic kidney stone formers in the community, 2015-09-06

• Stability and Validation of a High-Throughput LC-MS/MS Method for the Quantification of Cefepime, Meropenem, and Piperacillin and Tazobactam in Serum, 2021-09-01

• Serum Cystatin C as an Indicator of Renal Function and Mortality in Liver Transplant Recipients, 2015-08-21

• Cystatin C and Creatinine-based eGFR equation performance depends on patient characteristics, 2015-08-03

• Altered Calcium and Vitamin D Homeostasis in First-Time Calcium Kidney Stone-Formers, 2015-09-02

• Detection and Clinical Patterns of Nephron Hypertrophy and Nephrosclerosis Among Apparently Healthy Adults, 2016-02-06

• The association between age and nephrosclerosis on renal biopsy among healthy adults, 2010-05-04

• Novel Uses of Ultrasound to Assess Kidney Mechanical Properties, 2021-07-01

• C-reactive Protein among Community-Dwelling Hypertensives on Single-agent Antihypertensive Treatment, 2009-07-01

• Association Between Prior Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters and Lack of Functioning Arteriovenous Fistulas: A Case-Control Study in Hemodialysis Patients, 2012-06-15

• Estimation of nephron number in living humans by combining unenhanced computed tomography with biopsy-based stereology, 2019-10-07

• For estimating creatinine clearance measuring muscle mass gives better results than those based on demographics, 2009-01-28

• Age, kidney function, and risk factors associate differently with cortical and medullary volumes of the kidney, 2013-09-25

• Tubular secretion of creatinine and kidney function: an observational study, 2020-03-30

• Effect of Dataset Size and Medical Image Modality on Convolutional Neural Network Model Performance for Automated Segmentation: A CT and MR Renal Tumor Imaging Study, 2023-03-17

• The estimated glomerular filtration rate as a test for chronic kidney disease: Problems and solutions, 2012-11-26

• Incidence and predictive factors associated with beta-lactam neurotoxicity in the critically ill: A retrospective cohort study, 2022-02-08

• Leave No Stone Unturned: Defining Recurrence in Kidney Stone Formers, 2019-01-24

• Urine High and Low Molecular Weight Proteins One-Year Post Kidney Transplant: Relationship to Histology and Graft Survival, 2013-02-15

• Global glomerulosclerosis with nephrotic syndrome; the clinical importance of age adjustment, 2017-12-19

• The Minnesota attributable risk of kidney donation (MARKD) study: a retrospective cohort study of long-term (> 50 year) outcomes after kidney donation compared to well-matched healthy controls, 2023-05-01

• Risk factors for chronic kidney disease in persons with kidney stones: Case-control study in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 2009-10-22

• HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY AGING ON KIDNEY STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: Human Studies, 2022-01-25

• Hospital readmission among new dialysis patients associated with young age and poor functional status, 2018-01-09

• Death With Function and Graft Failure After Kidney Transplantation: Risk Factors at Baseline Suggest New Approaches to Management, 2022-01-13

• Estimating the glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine is better than from cystatin C for evaluating risk factors associated with chronic kidney disease, 2013-02-20

• Characterization of Inner Medullary Collecting Duct Plug Formation among Idiopathic Calcium Oxalate Stone Formers, 2016-05-19

• Prognostic Value of Urinary and Plasma C-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure, 2021-07-07

• Automated assessment of renal cortical surface roughness from computerized tomography images and its association with age, 2014-07-30

• Larger nephron size, low nephron number, and nephrosclerosis on biopsy as predictors of kidney function after donating a kidney, 2019-02-01

• Risk of ESRD and Mortality in Kidney and Bladder Stone Formers, 2018-08-23

• C-Type natriuretic peptide: a potential urinary biomarker for renal remodeling and fibrosis during aging, 2011-08-01

• Tubulointerstitial fibrosis of living donor kidneys associates with urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, 2016-06-10

• Phenotypic characterization of kidney stone formers by endoscopic and histological quantification of intra-renal calcification, 2013-05-22

• Kidney stones are common after bariatric surgery, 2014-10-29

• Structural and functional changes with the aging kidney, 2015-09-04

• Data on the relation between renal biomarkers and measured glomerular filtration rate, 2017-09-01

• Increased Circulating Inflammatory Endothelial Cells in African-Americans with Essential Hypertension, 2013-06-24

• The implications of anatomical and functional changes of the aging kidney: with an emphasis on the glomeruli, 2012-03-21