When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Analgesic nephropathy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analgesic_nephropathy

   The term usually refers to damage induced by excessive use of combinations of these medications, especially combinations that include phenacetin. It may also be used to describe kidney injury from any single analgesic medication. The specific kidney injuries induced by analgesics are renal papillary necrosis and chronic interstitial nephritis.

3. Kidney disease - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_disease

   Kidney failure is known as the end-stage of kidney disease, where dialysis or a kidney transplant is the only treatment option. Chronic kidney disease is defined as prolonged kidney abnormalities (functional and/or structural in nature) that last for more than three months. [1]

4. Acute kidney injury - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_kidney_injury

   Acute kidney injury was one of the most expensive conditions seen in U.S. hospitals in 2011, with an aggregated cost of nearly $4.7 billion for approximately 498,000 hospital stays. [48] This was a 346% increase in hospitalizations from 1997, when there were 98,000 acute kidney injury stays. [49]

5. Kidney failure - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_failure

   Drug overdoses, accidental or from chemical overloads of drugs such as antibiotics or chemotherapy, along with bee stings [25] may also cause the onset of acute kidney injury. Unlike chronic kidney disease, however, the kidneys can often recover from acute kidney injury, allowing the person with AKI to resume a normal life. People with acute ...

6. Renal replacement therapy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_replacement_therapy

   It is used when the kidneys are not working well, which is called kidney failure and includes acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. Renal replacement therapy includes dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), hemofiltration, and hemodiafiltration, which are various ways of filtration of blood with or without machines.

7. Acute uric acid nephropathy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_uric_acid_nephropathy

   Acute uric acid nephropathy is caused by deposition of uric acid crystals within the kidney interstitium and tubules, leading to partial or complete obstruction of collecting ducts, renal pelvis, or ureter. This obstruction is usually bilateral, and patients follow the clinical course of acute kidney failure.