Background: Patients who undergo major orthopedic surgery are at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) due to blood loss, electrolyte disorders, infection, and the presence of other co-morbidities. In this study, the frequency and risk factors of AKI were investigated. Objective & Methods: This study is a cross-sectional-analytical study with a sample size of 180 people. The studied population wer...

Drug Prescribing for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in General Practice: a Cross-Sectional Study

hronic kidney disease is a major public health problem throughout the world. In the United States, kidney failure is becoming increasingly common and is associated with poor health outcomes and high medical expenditures. In this country, the number of patients treated with dialysis or transplantation is projected to increase from 340,000 in 1999 to 651,000 in 2010.1 The major outcomes of chroni...

Chronic kidney disease is a leading public health problem related to poor quality of life and premature death. As a resource for evidence-informed health policy-making, we evaluated the prevalence of chronic kidney disease using the data of non-institutionalized adults aged ≥ 20 years (n = 15,319) from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2011-2013. Chronic kidney dise...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to the myriad problems that follow loss of kidney function. It results from a large number of diseases that either are systemic and damage the kidney or are intrinsic to the kidney ( Table 131-1 ). CKD has two characteristics. First, there is chronicity because the kidney damage of CKD is rarely repaired and loss of function persists, unlike the course of acu...

Many patients seen in primary care have chronic kidney disease (CKD), an increasingly prevalent, costly, and underappreciated public health problem. According to the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 800,000 Americans have serum creatinine levels of 2.0 mg/dL or greater, and 6.2 million people have levels of 1.5 mg/dL or greater [1]. Although these creatinine ...