Kidney Injury

By the age of 15 years, one-third of patients in a study from the Netherlands experienced one or more signs of kidney injury, leading researchers to believe the cause of solitary functioning kidney may impact the risk of kidney injury.

Individuals who survived for at least 30 days after contracting COVID-19 — considered the acute phase of the illness — were at greater risk for adverse kidney outcomes, even if the infection was deemed mild, study results showed.

Study results of patients with kidney diseases showed plasma kidney injury molecule-1 was associated with underlying tubulointerstitial and mesangial lesions and progression to kidney failure.

Treatment with avacopan can reduce glucocorticoid use, improve disease control, and recover renal function among patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence.

Among patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, acute kidney injury occurs in 1.5% of hospitalizations, and is associated with increased implant infection, health care use and death following surgery, according to findings published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.