Acute renal failure from contrast medium: Beware patients taking metformin…

Acute renal failure induced by contrast medium: steps towards prevention.

Acute Renal Failure Following Brake Fluid Poisoning

Brake fluid is a mixture of different Glycol derivatives which are poisoning and their ingestion triggers significant CNS symptoms, severe metabolic acidosis, cardiac, pulmonary, and renal failure. Here in this study, a case is reported who had been ingested 150mL of brake fluid for suicidal attempt. 

Acute renal failure precipitated by radiographic contrast medium in a patient with rhabdomyolysis.

Metformin induced acute pancreatitis precipitated by renal failure.

Metformin is a biguanide commonly used in type 2 diabetes and considered to be a safe drug with minimal side effects. Approximately 2% of cases of acute pancreatitis may be caused by drugs, but it is not a known complication of metformin therapy. To date only one case of pancreatitis has been reported in association with metformin, but that was secondary to metformin poisoning (overdose). This ...

Metformin lactic acidosis, acute renal failure and rofecoxib.

A patient with acute renal failure associated with lactic acidosis as a result of concurrent treatment with metformin is described. Rofecoxib may have been a precipitating factor. The risk of renal failure with the use of traditional NSAIDs is well known. However, what is less well appreciated is the role that the COX 2 inhibitors may play in the development of renal failure which, when it occu...