Contrast-medium-induced acute renal failure

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

Contrast Medium-Induced Acute Kidney Injury.

Contrast medium-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) is a predominant cause of hospital-acquired renal insufficiency. With an increasing number of contrast medium-enhanced radiological procedures being performed in a rapidly increasing ageing population in the Western world, it is imperative that more attention is given to understand the aetiology of CI-AKI to devise novel diagnostic methods an...

Amoxicillin-induced acute renal failure.

A 50-year-old Caucasian woman suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy refractory to antiepileptic drugs (AED) from the age of 2 years was admitted for partial left temporal lobe resection after extensive evaluation and non-invasive monitoring for determination of her epileptogenic focus. She was in good health without previous or concomitant diseases. Her medication consisted of carbamazepine 600...

Hypokalaemia-induced acute renal failure.

Key words: acute renal failure; chronic diarrhoea; walk. The patient admitted to drinking approximately hypokalaemia; laxative abuse 100 g/day of alcohol. Physical examination revealed the patient to be obese but not unwell. His blood pressure was 120/80 mmHg with a postural drop of 30 mmHg, heart rate was 80

Ethambutol-induced acute renal failure.

In Figure 1 the unit of measure stated in the Y axis for urinary 3-NT to creatinine ratio should be nM/mg10-1 (nanomoles) and not microM/mg 10-1 as reported and for urinary 3-NT should be nM/L (nanomoles/L) and not microM/L as reported. The authors would like to apologize for this error.