Acute Kidney Injury in Asia.

… More efforts should be made to increase public awareness, establish preventive approaches in communities, educate health-care practitioner entities to achieve better recognition, and form specialist renal teams to improve the treatment of AKI. The …

Intravenous fluids: balancing solutions.

The topic of intravenous fluids may be regarded as “reverse nephrology”, because nephrologists usually treat to remove fluids rather than to infuse them. However, because nephrology is deeply rooted in fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance, IV fluids belong in the realm of our specialty.

Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients…

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Interventional diagnostic and therapeutic procedures requiring intravascular iodinated contrast steadily increase patient exposure to the risks of contrast-induced acute kidney injury , which is associated with death, nonfatal cardiovascular events, and prolonged hospitalization.

Past Kidney Damage Linked to Pregnancy Problems

“We believe that this study highlights an important finding that will be useful for medical providers caring for reproductive-age women,” said study author Dr. Jessica Sheehan Tangren, a nephrologist from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The researchers reviewed data from almost 25,000 women who gave birth at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1998 and 2007.

Nordic walking sticks can alleviate back, hip and knee pain

Nordic walking sticks, which are known for helping walkers burn more calories than ordinary walking, have been proven by an Israeli research team to alleviate widespread chronic pain in the hips, knees and lower back of older people. The study, whose lead author was Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center retired internal medicine and nephrology specialist Dr. Donald Silverberg, was recently published in the open-access International Journal of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.