Acute & Chronic Kidney InjuryArchives
Reproductive history and later-life health: examining the link between birth intervals and CKD in postmenopausal women
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), characterized by a progressive decline in kidney function, represents a major global public health challenge, with a reported prevalence of approximately 9.1% that continues to rise [1, 2–3]. In postmenopausal women, the risk of CKD is further heightened by a sharp...
Health-related quality of life in nondialysis CKD patients: a comprehensive description of five-year trajectories among the CKD–REIN cohort
Health-related Quality-of-life (HRQOL), a multidimensional concept, is an important clinical and economic outcome for patients, health care providers, researchers and payers. [1, 2] Patients with late-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), comorbidities and treatments such as dialysis experience significant...
Acute kidney injury after TIPS in decompensated cirrhosis patients: a retrospective cohort study
Portal hypertension is one of the serious complications with higher mortality in patients with decompensated cirrhosis [1, 2, 3–4]. Currently, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) has become an effective treatment for portal hypertension in patients with decompensated cirrhosis...
Pulmonary tularemia with antineutrophil-cytoplasmic-antibody-negative pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis causing acute kidney injury: a case report and review of the literature
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis), a Gram-negative rod-shaped or coccoid bacterium [1, 2–3]. Its incidence in Europe, including Germany, is very low [4, 5–6]. In addition, diagnosis is often challenging owing to the nonspecific...
