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An updated overview of diabetic nephropathy: Diagnosis, prognosis, treatment goals and latest guidelines.
(2020-04)
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major healthcare challenge. It occurs in up to 50% of those living with diabetes, is a major cause of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) that requires treatment with dialysis or renal transplantation, ...
Improving Clinical Prediction Rules In Acute Kidney Injury With The Use of Biomarkers of Cell Cycle Arrest: A Pilot Study.
(2018-06)
INTRODUCTION: Early recognition of patients developing acute kidney injury is of considerable interest, we report the first use of a combination of a clinical prediction rule with a biomarker in emergent adult medical ...
The Role of Risk Prediction Models in Prevention and Management of AKI.
(2019-09)
Acute kidney injury is a major health care problem. Improving recognition of those at risk and highlighting those who have developed AKI at an earlier stage remains a priority for research and clinical practice. Prediction ...
An unusual case of severe high anion gap metabolic acidosis
(2011-04)
We present a case of high anion gap metabolic acidosis with an unusual aetiology in a 75-year-old lady with hypoglycaemia, encephalopathy and relatively preserved renal function. Full toxicology and biochemical analysis ...
Obesity and recovery from acute kidney injury (Ob AKI): a prospective cohort feasibility study.
(2019-03)
OBJECTIVES: To test the methodology of recruitment, retention and data completeness in a prospective cohort recruited after a hospitalised episode of acute kidney injury (AKI), to inform a future prospective cohort study ...
Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury.
(2020-02)
The long-term sequelae of AKI have received increasing attention so that its associations with a number of adverse outcomes, including higher mortality and development of CKD, are now widely appreciated. These associations ...
Three-year outcomes after acute kidney injury: results of a prospective parallel group cohort study.
(2017-03)
OBJECTIVES: Using a prospective study design, we aimed to characterise the effect
of acute kidney injury (AKI) on long-term changes in renal function in a general hospital population. PARTICIPANTS: Hospitalised patients ...