POS-062 Acute kidney injury in COVID-19 infection: What are the outcomes in South Africa?

Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Iraqi Patients with COVID-19 Infection

Results: The incidence of AKI was 23.2%.  AKI had significant correlation with older age (p-value 0.006) and hypertension (p-value 0.034) . Chest pain and abdominal pain were more common in patients with than those without AKI. Also Mean serum concentration of inflammatory markers ( D-dimer and C-reactive protein (CRP)) in patients with AKI was 1863.6±1599 ng/ml and 66.65±60.81 ng/ml, compared ...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report

Fracture Surgery in Known COVID-19 Infected Patients: What Are the Challenges?

Background: Surgery in the time of COVID-19 pandemic is a challenging issue while treatment of affected fracturepatients is inevitable. The present study summarizes the challenges that an orthopedic surgeon is confronting duringthe surgical treatment of fracture patients with concomitant COVID-19 infection.Methods: Demographic and fracture related data of 13 fracture patients ...

Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Africa.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a challenging problem in Africa because of the burden of disease (especially human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]-related AKI in sub-Saharan Africa, diarrheal disease, malaria, and nephrotoxins), late presentation of patients to health care facilities, and the lack of resources to support patients with established AKI in many countries. The pattern of AKI is vastly di...

acute kidney injury in urology patients: incidence, causes and outcomes

conclusions aki is common in urology patients. the underlying aetiologies of aki in this group may explain a lower overall mortality, although increasing aki severity remains a marker of patients at higher risk of poor outcomes. the low rate of renal recovery suggests that urology patients who sustain aki are exposed to a significant risk of ckd and its attendant consequences for long term heal...