Acute & Chronic Kidney InjuryArchives
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...
The role of social networks in supporting self-management in CKD: a narrative synthesis
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is defined as a reduction in kidney function for more than 90 days, and is classified based on cause, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) category and albuminuria category [1]. It ranges from early stages, often symptomatic, to Stage 5 kidney failure that may require dialysis...
