Oftentimes, critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) are given dialysis when they’re in a hospital's intensive ...

This Donate Life Month, advocates highlight the urgent need for kidney donors as thousands wait years for a transplant.

Although patients in the RENAL cohort started treatment earlier than those in the ATN cohort in terms of time from ICU admission (2.1 days versus 6.7 days), the mean blood urea nitrogen at the ...

I had two blood transfusions and was moved up to ICU," Patel said. Patel had only developed one kidney, which operated at only two percent. He needed to be on dialysis while he waited for a kidney ...

The Pediatric Critical Care Nephrology and Dialysis Fellowship program at Baylor College of Medicine, provides specialized training in nephrology for graduates of Pediatric Critical Care fellowships ...

Setting: PICU and neonatal ICU in a tertiary academic center ... free-flow CRRT is still commonly used to address renal dysfunction in ECLS patients who frequently have limited vascular access ...

Like thousands of patients in dire need of specialised treatment, Mr Mathenge was turned away from the provincial hospital, which has literally locked up its Intensive Care and renal units for two ...