ALLMedicine™ Renal Failure Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - We present a case of polymicrobial subacute bacterial endocarditis and bacteremia with Bacillus cereus and Cardiobacterium hominis in a 72-year-old man with pre-existing mitral valve disease and prior mitral valve repair who presented with renal f...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Background Diseases of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier are a leading cause of end-stage renal failure. Despite of a growing understanding of genes involved in glomerular disorders in children, the vast majority of adult patients lack a ...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma cell disorder characterized by osteolytic lesions, increased susceptibility to infections, hypercalcemia, and renal failure. Talquetamab is a humanized immunoglobulin G4 proline, alanine, alanine (IgG4PAA) bi...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Amyloidosis is a rare group of diseases characterized by abnormal folding of proteins and extracellular deposition of insoluble fibrils. It can be localized to one organ system or can have systemic involvement. The kidney is the most common organ ...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - A 65-year-old man with a history of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and renal failure was admitted due to difficulty in fluid volume control during haemodialysis. He had frequent episodes of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) wit...

May 8th, 2021 - Renal failure can be divided into acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. Both are common and result in increased patient morbidity and mortality. The etiology is multifactorial and differentiation of acute kidney injury from chronic kidne...

Jul 7th, 2020 - Thoracic aortic diseases, including disease of the descending thoracic aorta (DTA), are significant causes of death in the United States. Open repair of the DTA is a physiologically impactful operation with relatively high rates of mortality, para...

May 7th, 2020 - Acute obstructive uropathy is a medical emergency, which often is accompanied by acute renal failure or sepsis. Treatment options to resolve the acute obstructive process include conservative medical management, retrograde ureteral stenting, or pl...

Aug 29th, 2018 - Diabetic nephropathy remains the principal cause of end-stage renal failure in the UK and its prevalence is set to increase. People with diabetes and end-stage renal failure on maintenance haemodialysis are highly vulnerable, with complex comorbid...

Sep 25th, 2017 - Maternal hemorrhage, defined as a cumulative blood loss of greater than or equal to 1,000 mL or blood loss accompanied by signs or symptoms of hypovolemia within 24 hours after the birth process, remains the leading cause of maternal mortality wor...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma cell disorder characterized by osteolytic lesions, increased susceptibility to infections, hypercalcemia, and renal failure. Talquetamab is a humanized immunoglobulin G4 proline, alanine, alanine (IgG4PAA) bi...

Nov 24th, 2021 - This study will enroll 15 eligible adult participants with end stage renal failure on dialysis who are on the waiting list for a deceased donor transplant with calculated panel reactive antibodies (cPRA) ≥99.9% or >98% (with >5 years of waiting ti...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Prosthetic paravalvular leaks (PVL) are associated with congestive heart failure and haemolysis, for which the standard treatment is open-heart surgery with the attendant risks to the patient. Transcatheter closure has emerged as an alternative. P...

Nov 12th, 2021 - The pulmonary complications are the major cause of morbidity and mortality following Lung surgeries. The Buteyko breathing technique is used for reversing the health condition such as poor breathing, mouth breathing and over breathing. Incentive s...

Nov 10th, 2021 - Diabetes is amongst the most common long term conditions, with the number of people affected worldwide quadrupling from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Its prevalence in people over 18 years of age has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to a stag...

Nov 26th, 2021 - Treatment with belzutifan (Welireg), a small-molecule hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF2A) inhibitor, induced strong responses in patients whose cancers were associated with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, investigators reported. In a phase II stu...

Nov 8th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger survivors of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) have a higher risk of developing acute renal failure, and possibly pneumonia and nutritional deficiencies, than their older peers, new research suggests. "Thank...

Nov 3rd, 2021 - The Diagnosis: Calcinosis Cutis Due to Systemic Sclerosis Sine Scleroderma Laboratory evaluation was notable for high titers of antinuclear antibodies (>1/320; reference range, 0–1/80) and positive anticentromere antibodies. There were no other re.

Nov 2nd, 2021 - Sesen Bio met with the FDA to discuss questions related to the Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) that were raised in the complete response letter (CRL) previously issued by the regulatory agency regarding the biologics license applicati...

Oct 26th, 2021 - The bicycle toxin conjugates (BTCs) BT5528 and BT8009 have showcased preliminary signs of antitumor activity and encouraging tolerability when administered to patients with solid tumors such as urothelial cancer and ovarian cancer, according to fi...