Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure, is when the kidneys are suddenly unable to filter waste products from the blood. This condition can develop slowly or quickly, and ...

AKI — Increase in serum creatinine ≥0.3 mg/dl within 48 hr or increase ≥1.5 times baseline level Increase in serum creatinine ≥0.3 mg/dl within 48 hr or increase ≥1.5 times baseline level, which is ...

Adults with type 2 diabetes treated with an SGLT2 inhibitor had roughly a third fewer episodes of acute kidney injury (AKI) compared with matched people with type 2 diabetes treated with a DPP4 ...

A UC San Francisco-led study of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has found that mild-to-moderate acute kidney injury (AKI) did not predict worsening of kidney function after taking into ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic — November 2020 — when Melissa Lawson, then 36, was helicoptered from an emergency room in Santa Rosa, Calif., to a hospital here ...

The odds of cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury decreased with prophylactic administration of intravenous magnesium. Infusing prophylactic magnesium before initiating intravenous cisplatin for ...

Patients with acute kidney injury requiring outpatient dialysis after hospital discharge receive the same care as those with the more common end-stage kidney disease, according to a study led by UC ...

Kidney damage that seemingly heals appears to mutate the DNA in the mitochondria of kidney cells, making the organ less ...

AKI or acute kidney injury is a complex clinical disorder frequently seen in hospitalized critically ill patients. 1 It is defined as a functional or structural kidney abnormality in which a patient ...