Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within seven days, as shown...

normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as either acute kidney failure, which develops rapidly and may resolve; and chronic kidney failure, which...

term acute tubular injury (ATI) is preferred by pathologists over the older name acute tubular necrosis (ATN). ATN presents with acute kidney injury (AKI)...

more than three months. Acute kidney disease is now termed acute kidney injury and is marked by the sudden reduction in kidney function over seven days...

kidney function, known as acute kidney injury (previously called acute renal failure), or when a gradual decline in kidney function, chronic kidney failure...

it can reduce the rate of kidney failure and improve survival. However, fluid overload can exacerbate acute kidney injury. The use of diuretics does...

myoglobin, are harmful to the kidneys and can cause acute kidney injury. The muscle damage is most usually caused by a crush injury, strenuous exercise, medications...

acute kidney injury, and pyelonephritis. Urology addresses diseases of kidney (and urinary tract) anatomy: these include cancer, renal cysts, kidney stones...

contributes to acute kidney injury. Reagents to image ferroptosis have been developed to monitor anticancer drug-induced acute kidney injury in mouse models...

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through the kidneys. Similarly to the APO-E polymorphism, patients with the D-allele for ACE has an increased risk of acute kidney injury after coronary...

are given in mg/dL The ratio may be used to determine the cause of acute kidney injury or dehydration. The principle behind this ratio is the fact that...

that defines disorders of the heart and kidneys whereby "acute or chronic dysfunction in one organ may induce acute or chronic dysfunction of the other"...

Acute uric acid nephropathy (AUAN, also acute urate nephropathy) is a rapidly worsening (decreasing) kidney function (acute kidney injury) that is caused...

nausea, vomiting, lethargy, mental status changes, hypotension, acute kidney injury, and vaginal yeast infections. Rarer but more serious side effects...

of kidney damage in which there has been recent exposure to medical imaging contrast material without another clear cause for the acute kidney injury. Despite...

Acute proliferative glomerulonephritis is a disorder of the small blood vessels of the kidney. It is a common complication of bacterial infections, typically...

Acute kidney injury. Release of myoglobin by injured muscle leads to rhabdomyolysis coupled with shock leads to a significant rate of acute kidney injury...

(HUS/TTP) Bone marrow transplant related kidney diseases Radiation nephropathy Tumor lysis syndrome Acute kidney injury in the hospitalized cancer patient....

statins reduce risk of kidney failure. Statins, including atorvastatin, before heart surgery do not prevent acute kidney injury. Prior to contrast medium...

be the result of impaired kidney function (chronic kidney disease) and/or bicarbonate wasting. The adverse effects of acute versus chronic metabolic acidosis...

the kidneys. It is used when the kidneys are not working well, which is called kidney failure and includes acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease...

excessive protein intake, and insufficient kidney function, such as chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury. Symptoms of protein toxicity include unexplained...

(nephrolithiasis). The cause of acute kidney injury in most cases is ischemic or toxic injury. Mammalian kidneys are susceptible to ischemic injury because mammals lack...

Hyperphosphatemia causes acute kidney injury in tumor lysis syndrome, because of deposition of calcium phosphate crystals in the kidney parenchyma. Hypocalcemia...

or dysfunctional filtering of blood by the kidneys. It can lead to uremia and acute kidney injury (kidney failure) if not controlled. Azotemia has three...

higher dosing (troughs 15 to 20 μg/mL) for serious infection, and acute kidney injury (AKI) rates attributable to the vancomycin increased. Importantly...

ventilation. The kidneys are the third most sensitive organ to ischemia. Prolonged renal ischemia from cardiac arrest leads to acute kidney injury (AKI) in about...

toxicity to dogs can cause the animal to develop acute kidney injury (the sudden development of kidney failure) with anuria (a lack of urine production)...

in controls without AIN who underwent a biopsy for evaluation of acute kidney injury and showed an AUC of 0.79. This study also showed that the biomarkers...