Several risk tools can accurately predict individual baseline risks of adverse events in people with chronic kidney disease. Here, the authors examine methods of assessing risk and discuss risk ...

This makes it hard for the kidneys to do their job of filtering blood. A severe infection may even progress to septic shock, a condition that can cause an acute kidney injury because the blood ...

In its early stages, kidney disease may not cause any symptoms or signs. However, as it progresses, it can cause symptoms such as itchy skin, pruritus, and a rash. Around 35.5 million adults in ...

The purpose of this study was to present 11 patients operated on owing to rare forms of peripheral arterial embolism at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Serbian Clinical Center ...

“They started IVs on both arms, and I don’t remember anything after that.” When doctors performed tests on Mullins, they discovered she had a kidney stone surrounded by infection, and that she was in ...

Albumin use in patients with septic shock who had kidney impairment was associated with increased RRT (OR, 2.37) and with in-hospital mortality (OR, 1.21). Caution is urged with early albumin use ...

Separation and distal migration of the catheter occurred during its placement into the renal ostia ... of this embolism could not be determined, we assumed that a second septic focus existed ...

iDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada jDepartment of Community Health Sciences, O ...

The consumption of energy drinks can contribute to the formation of kidney stones—as can many other foods and beverages. What makes energy drinks distinct is that they contain an especially high ...

Anyone who's ever had a kidney stone will tell you there's nothing else like the mind-numbing, excruciating pain. Sometimes a patient will have a single stone and then never have a recurrence. Other ...