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Jan 26th, 2022 - Acute kidney injury occurs in about 30% of patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is one of the most common extrapulmonary complications of this disease. The highest risk of acute kidney injury is found in hospitalized ...

Jan 6th, 2022 - Vitamin C deficiency is found in patients with variable kidney diseases. However, the role of vitamin C as an epigenetic regulator in renal homeostasis and pathogenesis remains largely unknown. We showed that vitamin C deficiency leads to acute tu...

Dec 22nd, 2021 - Meningococcal disease is associated with high mortality. When acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in patients with severe meningococcal disease, it is typically attributable to sepsis, although meningococcal disease and lipopolysaccharide release are...

Dec 19th, 2021 - Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antagonists have been used for treating metastatic neoplasms. It has also been known that one of its side effects is to cause proteinuria and renal failure in the setting of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Diagnostic Considerations Pseudohyperkalemia is the term applied to the clinical situation in which in vitro lysis of cellular contents leads to measurement of a high serum potassium level that does not reflect the true in vivo level. It occurs mo...

Sep 13th, 2021 - Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus called SARSCoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has caused an international outbreak of respiratory illness described as COVID-19. Among 85 patients with COVID-19 an incidence of acute ki...

Feb 12th, 2020 - There are limited published data, currently, suggesting the risk of AKI during oral direct acting antiviral treatment. Most case reports and retrospective studies reported the presence of an intrinsic cause of renal injury, with most of the availa...

Jul 11th, 2019 - Current strategies for AKI detection rely primarily on elevations in serum creatinine in conjunction with diminished urine output. Unfortunately, deviations in these crude parameters of renal function are largely insensitive and late manifestation...

Apr 5th, 2019 - The incidence of Acute kidney injury in intensive care unit patients is rising due to the population age increasing, more comorbidities, and a higher prevalence of risk factors. Improved Intensive Care Unit management has, however, significantly d...

Feb 13th, 2018 - Prolonged periods of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) cause high levels of plasma free haemoglobin(Hb) and are associated with increased morbidity. We hypothesized that repletion of nitric oxide (NO) during and after the surgical procedure on CPB may ...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although acute kidney injury is seen in a substantial minority of patients with severe COVID-19, no evidence of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 was found in kidney biopsies from a small series of such patients, according to ...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back. This is the Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Watto, here with the great Dr Paul Williams. Paul N. Williams, MD: I'm going to take the reins for a change. This is a recap of one of our Curbsider podcast episodes. Tonig...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back. This is the Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Watto, here with the great Dr Paul Williams. Paul N. Williams, MD: I'm going to take the reins for a change. This is a recap of one of our Curbsider podcast episodes. Tonig...

Nov 8th, 2019 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one in six cancer patients treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors develops at least transient acute kidney injury (AKI), a retrospective study found. "Patients receiving immune-checkpoint inhibitors can experie...

Mar 25th, 2019 - Q) When my patient was told that she needed dialysis, one of her first questions was, "For how long?" Which got me thinking: How often do dialysis patients regain kidney function? Are some more likely than others to be able to stop dialysis? Diagn.