Sir, The recent article by Marcos et al. raises serious concerns about the current dosing recommendations for telavancin. The retrospective nature of their study (as the authors acknowledge) prevents direct attribution of the observed acute kidney injury (AKI) events to the use of telavancin. However, their findings regarding a link between high body mass index (BMI) and AKI are not entirely un...

Background: There is an interdependency between thyroid hormones and renal function. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) a degradation of function that irreversible. Aimsand Objectives: To compare the hormone profiles CKD patients receiving two distinct therapeutic approaches. Materials methods: Over course one year, 200 newly diagnosed or known withCKD were recruited for cross-sectional study. Group ...

Pemberian obat dengan dosis sesuai pada pasien Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD ) penting dilakukan, salah satunya untuk memastikan luaran terapi yang optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui hubungan antara dose adjustment dan serta efisiensi biaya adanya rawat inap CKD.Jenis penelitian observasional desain cross sectional. Sebanyak 200 rekam medis CKD periode Januari – Desember 2017 di RSUD dr...

BACKGROUND Population-based data on the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in sub-Saharan Africa is still very limited. We assessed the prevalence and determinants of CKD, and evaluated the concordance of commonly advocated estimators of glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in a mixed ancestry population from South Africa. METHODS Participants were a population-based sample of adults selecte...