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  1. Organ Allocation and Transplant Equity in Brazil: The Hidden Burden of HLA Homozygosity and High Sensitization

    Article • Transplantation, February 2026, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  2. Effects of social determinants of health on the landscape of kidney disease

    Article • Nature Reviews Nephrology, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  3. Social Media, Health Care, and the Connected Patient

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  4. Are Your kidneys ok? Detect early to protect kidney health

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, December 2025, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Joseph Vassalotti

  5. Seus rins estão saudáveis? Faça um diagnóstico precoce para proteger a saúde renal

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, December 2025, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Joseph Vassalotti

  6. Are your kidneys okay? Detect early to protect kidney health

    Article • Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, June 2025, The Korean Society of Nephrology

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Joseph Vassalotti

  7. Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health

    Article • World Journal of Nephrology and Urology, May 2025, Elmer Press, Inc.

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  8. Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health

    Article • Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  9. Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health

    Article • Turkish Journal of Nephrology, April 2025, AVES Publishing Co.

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  10. Are your kidneys ok? Early detection to protect kidney health1

    Article • Néphrologie & Thérapeutique, April 2025, John Libbey Eurotext

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  11. Are your kidneys Ok? Detect early to protect kidney health

    Article • Nephrology (Saint-Petersburg), March 2025, Non-profit organization Nephrology

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  12. Are your kidneys Ok? Detect early to protect kidney health

    Article • Nephrology and Dialysis, March 2025, Russian Dialysis Society

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  13. Are your kidneys Ok? Detect early to protect kidney health

    Article • Kidney International, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Joseph Vassalotti

  14. Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health

    Article • Kidney International Reports, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Joseph Vassalotti

  15. Urinary Complement Factor Ba: A New Tool for Early Detection of Acute Kidney Injury

    Article • Kidney International Reports, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  16. NephroConnect: Patterns, Preferences, Barriers, and Potentials in the Global Nephrology Community’s Social Media Landscape

    Article • Kidney International Reports, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  17. The implications of the Vitamin D metabolite diagnostic ratio (VMDR) in the assessment of patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria.

    Article • Kidney International Reports, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  18. The Three Forms of International Society of Nephrology World Congress of Nephrology — Live, Virtual, and Hybrid: Impact of Transition on Attendance and Social Media Coverage

    Article • Kidney International Reports, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  19. Impact of bedside ultrasound to reduce the incidence of acute renal injury in high-risk surgical patients: a randomized clinical trial

    Article • Journal of Ultrasound, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  20. Sex differences in COVID-19 mortality risk in patients on kidney function replacement therapy

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Daniela Radulescu

  21. The clinical frailty scale as a triage tool for ICU admission of dialysis patients with COVID-19 – An ERACODA analysis

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Daniela Radulescu

  22. Risk factors for acute kidney injury after liver transplantation in intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study

    Article • Sao Paulo Medical Journal, August 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  23. How was kidney care reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic?

    Article • Kidney International Reports, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  24. Clinical, Functional, and Mental Health Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients 3 Mo After a Diagnosis of COVID-19

    Article • Transplantation, March 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Daniela Radulescu

  25. Challenges and Opportunities of a Virtual Nephrology Meeting: The ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2021

    Article • Kidney International Reports, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  26. Recovery of dialysis patients with COVID-19: health outcomes 3 months after diagnosis in ERACODA

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Daniela Radulescu

  27. OUP accepted manuscript

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Daniela Radulescu

  28. Innovations in Nephrology Education

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  29. Is resveratrol a prospective therapeutic strategy in the co-association of glucose metabolism disorders and neurodegenerative diseases?

    Article • Nutritional Neuroscience, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  30. Brazil and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Kidney International Reports, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  31. COVID-19-related mortality in kidney transplant and haemodialysis patients: a comparative, prospective registry-based study

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Prof. Maurizio Gallieni

  32. Clinical triage of patients on kidney replacement therapy presenting with COVID-19: an ERACODA registry analysis

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Prof. Maurizio Gallieni

  33. Renin-Angiotensin System Blockers and the Risk of COVID-19–Related Mortality in Patients with Kidney Failure

    Article • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, June 2021, American Society of Nephrology

    Prof. Carmine Zoccali, Maria José Soler, Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Prof. Maurizio Gallieni

  34. COVID-19-related mortality in kidney transplant and dialysis patients: results of the ERACODA collaboration

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Haridian Sosa, Prof. Maurizio Gallieni

  35. Development and application of a massive open online course to deliver innovative transplant education

    Article • Transplant Immunology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  36. Social Media Coverage of the International Society of Nephrology World Congress of Nephrology 2019: Exploring Novel Strategies

    Article • Kidney International Reports, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Rolando Claure-Del Granado

  37. Mindfulness-based stress reduction or aerobics exercise for reducing burn-out in medical residents-a study protocol for a phase III, open-label, multi-center, randomized controlled trial: The MINDER study

    Article • Principles and Practice of Clinical Research Journal, July 2020, Principles and Practice of Clinical Research

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Dr Fathima Minisha, Zohaib Yousaf

  38. Building capacity in evidence-based medicine in low-income and middle-income countries: problems and potential solutions

    Article • BMJ evidence-based medicine, November 2019, BMJ

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  39. MON-271 PREDICTION FOR PROGRESSION FROM CKD TO THE INITIATION OF RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY: A COHORT STUDY ON ADULT PATIENTS IN THE PREDIALYSIS

    Article • Kidney International Reports, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  40. SUN-055 REAL WORLD DATA ON THE TRANSITION FROM CKD TO RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY: CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS IN A METROPOLITAN AREA IN BRAZIL

    Article • Kidney International Reports, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  41. 17 Science is conceptually dynamic and constantly trying to re-inventing itself

    Article • July 2019, BMJ

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  42. Prevalence of Patients Receiving Publicly Funded Renal Replacement Therapy in Brazil: Regional Inequities and Costs

    Article • The Open Urology & Nephrology Journal, September 2017, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  43. REPLY BY THE AUTHORS: Re: Artificial urinary sphincter for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: a historical cohort from 2004 to 2015

    Article • International braz j urol, June 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  44. Single Nucleotide Variants in A Family of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for the Phenotype Congenital Megaureter: A Genomic Analysis

    Article • The Open Urology & Nephrology Journal, May 2017, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  45. MP728SOCIOECONOMIC MARKERS IN INCIDENT DIALYSIS PATIENTS: ARE DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS AT HIGHER RISK TO INITIATE DIALYSIS?

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  46. Artificial urinary sphincter for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: a historical cohort from 2004 to 2015

    Article • International braz j urol, February 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  47. PP091 A Follow Up Study On Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)

    Article • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  48. SP021A GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF MONOZYGOTIC TWINS DISCORDANT FOR THE EXPRESSION OF MEGAURETER USING THE WHOLE EXOME TECHNIQUE

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  49. Five-year review of an international clinical research-training program

    Article • Advances in Medical Education and Practice, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ricardo J. O. Ferreira, Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Ms Faiza Khawaja, Dr Paulo C Corrêa, Claudia K Suemoto, Suely Reiko Matsubayashi, Dr Sherine Elsayed Mohamed Ismail

  50. Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract: An embryogenetic review

    Article • Birth Defects Research Part C Embryo Today Reviews, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  51. Angiotensin type 2 receptor gene are associated with ureteropelvic junction obstruction

    Article • Nephrology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  52. Is there an Association Between Comorbidities and Income or Literacy in Incident Dialysis Patients Living in Contagem, Brazil?

    Article • The Open Urology & Nephrology Journal, July 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior

  53. PAX2 Polymorphisms and Congenital Abnormalities of the Kidney and Urinary Tract in a Brazilian Pediatric Population: Evidence for a Role in Vesicoureteral Reflux

    Article • Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  54. Plasma and urinary levels of cytokines in patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva

  55. Bone disease and cytokines in idiopathic hypercalciuria: a review

    Article • Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, Prof Ana Cristina Simões e Silva