Causes of acute renal failure can be divided into three categories: 1) prerenal, due to inadequate perfusion; 2) postrenal, due to obstruction of outflow; and 3) intrinsic, due to injury to renal parenchyma. Among the latter, diseases of, or injury to, glomeruli, vessels, interstitium, or tubules may lead to a decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Glomerular diseases that lead to acute ...

Introduction Variant patterns of arteries and veins are seen more frequently in abdomen than in any other part of the body. A knowledge of different types of variations depicted by renal and suprarenal veins is extremely important in exploration and treatment of renal trauma, renal transplantation, renovascular aneurysm and conservative or radical renal surgery [1–3]. The different patterns of ...

In the absence of trauma, urinoma due to spontaneous rupture either renal parenchyma or collecting system is rare. It even rarer and difficult diagnose in pregnancy. Hence, imaging plays a key role early identification this condition initiation management. The primary investigation ultrasonography if it inconclusive, magnetic resonance preferred next step. We report case 25-year-old primigravid...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and effect on mortality of early acute kidney injury in severely injured trauma patients using the Acute Kidney Injury Network creatinine criteria. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of severely injured trauma patients admitted to the shock trauma intensive care unit. SETTING Texas Trauma Institute, a state designated level I trauma unit certified by th...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether infliction of peritoneal trauma would promote tumor cell adherence to damaged peritoneal surfaces; to investigate whether peritoneal damage could promote tumor growth of extraperitoneal tumors; and to evaluate whether the amount of trauma correlated with the degree of tumor cell adherence and local and distant tumor growth. BACKGROUND DATA After potentially cura...

BACKGROUND Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is associated with poor outcomes for trauma patients. Different forms of MODS may exist and have different consequences. The ability to distinguish them clinically may have implications for prognosis and treatment. We wished to study whether prolonged MODS (PRMODS) could be observed as a distinct clinical entity to early resolving MODS (ERMO...