INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury is associated with a poor prognosis in acute liver failure but little is known of outcomes in patients undergoing transplantation for acute liver failure who require renal replacement therapy. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the United Kingdom Transplant Registry was performed (1 January 2001-31 December 2011) with patient and graft survival determined usi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study examined age-specific incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy attributed to analgesic nephropathy from 1971 through 2005 and adjusted comorbidity prevalence and survival of patients who had analgesic nephropathy and were on renal replacement therapy (compared with control subjects without diabetes). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMEN...

Source of Funding: Self Conflicts of interest: None DOI: 10.16965/ijims.2016.126 Renal replacement lipomatosis is a rare benign entity, characterized by diffuse replacement of renal parenchyma, sinus and hilum with adipose tissue resulting in renal parenchymal atrophy. Etiology may be secondary to obesity, cushing’s syndrome, corticosteroid excess or idiopathic. Renal replacement lipomatosis is...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To study the clinical course of children requiring continuous renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery and to analyze factors associated with mortality. METHODS A prospective observational study was performed that included children requiring continuous renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to det...

The treatment of established acute kidney injury (AKI) is largely supportive in nature. Renal replacement therapy remains the cornerstone of management for the minority of patients who have severe AKI. Optimization of renal replacement therapy may modulate the high mortality associated with AKI. Recent trials indicated that continuous renal replacement therapy does not confer a survival advanta...