“Encounters with patients experiencing an acute kidney injury may occur rarely for EMS providers, and remain hidden behind other more common causes of medical emergencies,” writes Hsie ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a rapid deterioration in kidney function that occurs within 48 hours of an initiating event and is associated with an absolute increase in serum creatinine of ≥26.4 ...

New guidance from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) addresses needed improvements in providing appropriate care to patients discharged after experiencing acute kidney injury requiring in ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases on long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) highlights their critical role in the development, diagnosis, and potential treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI ...

1 Functional Area of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, 14184, Stockholm Objective There is a paucity of data regarding prognosis in patients with acute versus chronic myocardial ...

For example, the estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) indicates possible kidney disease when it drops below a 60 milliliter (ml) per minute rate. Other tests include the blood urea nitrogen ...

📸 Check this out! Our state-of-the-art review on AKI for The Lancet is now available online at https://lnkd.in/gqkzgapN It was such a pleasure to write this piece with AKI family 🧡 ...

Kidney cancer-- also called renal cell cancer-- is a disease in which kidney cells become malignant (cancerous) and grow out of control, forming a tumor. Almost all kidney cancers first appear in ...

You will need a proper diagnosis of the injury ... Kidney Fund. Kidney pain: causes, why kidneys hurt, and when to seek care. Will JS, Bury DC, Miller JA. Mechanical low back pain. Am Fam Physician.

It’s a common cause of high creatinine. Kidney failure can be either acute or chronic. The symptoms of acute kidney failure can come on quickly while those of chronic kidney failure develop over ...