Acute Kidney Injury News

Among AKI survivors, 84% reported that the AKI episode significantly impacted their physical and emotional health, according to data published in Kidney 360.

A 29-year-old non-smoking man with a BMI of 37 kg/m2 and history of bipolar disease sustained a right subtrochanteric femur fracture and pseudoaneurysm of his right proximal femoral artery after a gunshot in December 2016.

Diets with a common metabolic pattern regarding cysteine catabolism can protect from ischemia-reperfusion injury-induced AKI, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

In this Healio Gastroenterology video exclusive, Arun J. Sanyal, MD, professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, discussed real-world data on patient characteristics, treatment and clinical response in hepatorenal syndrome.

Among patients with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, AKI incidence fluctuated between 2005 and 2015 without significant temporal trends, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

The initiation of SGLT-2 inhibitors correlated with a reduced risk of AKI in older adults with type 2 diabetes compared with other glucose-lowering medications.

Patients with a history of myocardial infarction are unlikely to receive prescriptions for angiotensin-converting enzyme/angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers or statins if they are also survivors of AKI, according to findings.

Medical centers that used team-based coaching interventions such as Aautomated surveillance reporting and a virtual learning collaborative saw reductions in AKI and chronic kidney disease, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

One liter of IV fluid can be administered prophylactically to patients over a short period (< 6 hours) following angiography to prevent adverse renal outcomes, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

In this exclusive video, Andrew Allegretti, MD, MSc, discussed a post hoc analysis assessing serum creatinine in patients treated with terlipressin for hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury.