Due to low toxicity to nontarget species and rapid degradation after its application, organophosphate (OP) remains a widely used class of pesticide. Suicidal or accidental overdose of OP can result in acute tubular necrosis. Experimental evidence shows little correlation between the renal tubular necrosis and the degree of OP-induced acetylcholinesterase inhibition, the main mechanism of OP's t...

In most patients, wasp stings cause local reactions and rarely anaphylaxis. Acute kidney injury and rhabdomyolysis are unusual complications of wasp stings. We report a case of acute kidney injury and rhabdomyolysis secondary to multiple wasp stings. A 55-year-old farmer developed multi organ dysfunction with acute kidney injury and rhabdomyolysis 3 days after he had sustained multiple wasp sti...

COMMON CAUSES of renal allograft dysfunction include acute rejection, cyclosporine or FK506 toxicity, acute tubular necrosis, and chronic allograft nephropathy. Important but less frequent causes are recurrent and de novo diseases in the allograft. We report the case of a 66-year-old man who developed renal insufficiency 8 months posttransplantation. A novel cause of renal allograft dysfunction...

We describe a scrub typhus patient with acute renal failure for whom a diagnosis was made based on serology as well as immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and an electron microscopic examination (EM) of a renal biopsy specimen. For our case, we demonstrated by IHC staining and EM that renal failure was caused by acute tubular necrosis due to a direct invasion of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Sixty patients with transplanted kidneys underwent dynamic renal scintigraphy using Technetium99m DTPA. The Perfusion Index, in particular was found to be valuable in differentiating between the two major renal transplant complications of acute tubular necrosis and acute rejection. In addition, other complications like outflow obstruction, pararenal fluid collections, leakage, etc., were readil...