ALLMedicine™ Acute Kidney Injury Center

Sep 18th, 2021 - Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Survivors Need Risk Stratification and Individualized Follow-Up.|2021|Zhao Y,Pu Y,Zhang L,Fu P,|

Sep 18th, 2021 - Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is widely used in the care of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). Despite hopeful trends suggested by recent studies, mortality among CRRT recipients with severe AKI remains extremely...

Sep 17th, 2021 - Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common and it is associated with poor clinical outcomes in premature and low birth weight neonates. This systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to summarize the literature and evaluate the prevalence, risk f...

Sep 17th, 2021 - Skin autofluorescence (SAF) reflects accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). The aim of this study was to evaluate predictive usefulness of SAF measurement in prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) after liver resection. This pros...

Sep 17th, 2021 - As of July 2021, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has led to more than 200 million infections and more than 4.2 million deaths globally. Complications of severe COVID-19 include acute kidney injury, liver ...

Jul 13th, 2021 - Kidney disease is an important public health problem. Both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease have been well defined and classified, leading to improved research efforts and subsequent management strategies and recommendations. F...

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...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Acute kidney disease (AKD) - which includes acute kidney injury (AKI) - and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are highly prevalent among hospitalized patients, including those in nephrology and medicine wards, surgical wards, and intensive care units (...

Dec 6th, 2020 - The bidirectional relationship between cancer and chronic kidney disease (CKD) is complex. Patients with cancer, particularly those with hematological malignancies such as multiple myeloma and lymphoma, are at increased risk of developing acute ki...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Inaugural consensus statements were developed and endorsed by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the National Kidney Foundation to improve and standardize the care of patients with kidney disease who have indication(s) to receive ACR-desi...

Jul 16th, 2021 - The late-stage clinical company Sesen Bio recently participated in a Late-Cycle Meeting with the FDA to discuss the biologics license application (BLA) for Vicineum as a potential option for patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)–unresponsiv...

Jul 9th, 2021 - Takeaway Chronic anticoagulation does not reduce the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) and its severity, including the need for renal replacement therapy (RRT) in hospitalised patients with COVID-19. Why this matters Findings suggest that renal mi...

Jun 14th, 2021 - The patient, a methamphetamine user, is found in a parking lot, rolling on the ground, completely disoriented. Transported to the ER, he is febrile to 102, hypotensive, and in mild MOSF. His WBC is 42,000 Death as a consequence of methamphetamine ...

Jun 12th, 2021 - The addition of daratumumab (Darzalex) to lenalidomide (Revlimid) and dexamethasone (D-Rd) continued to reduced the risk of death by 32% compared with Rd alone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) who are transplant ineligible af...

May 6th, 2021 - Potentially inappropriate prescribing is common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care, according to a new retrospective Scottish population-based analysis. High-risk prescribing in CKD contributes to adverse drug reactions ...