Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Severe Acute Adult Poisoning Cases in Martinique: Implicated Toxic Exposures and Their Outcomes by Dabor Resiere, Hatem Kallel, Odile Oxybel, Cyrille Chabartier, Jonathan Florentin, Yannick Brouste, Papa Gueye, Bruno Megarbane, Hossein Mehdaoui

“…The predominant clinical manifestations were respiratory failure (59%), hemodynamic failure (27%), neurologic failure (45%), gastrointestinal manifestations (27%), and renal failure (11%). Polypnea, shock, ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia, and gastro-intestinal disorders were the main symptoms associated with death. …”
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The usefulness of tranexamic acid for bleeding symptoms of chronic consumptive coagulopathy complicated by aortic disease: a single-institute, retrospective study of 14 patients by Naruko Suzuki, Nobuaki Suzuki, Yuka Kawaguchi, Shuichi Okamoto, Takeshi Kanematsu, Akira Katsumi, Atsuo Suzuki, Shogo Tamura, Tetsuhito Kojima, Hitoshi Kiyoi, Tadashi Matsushita

“…Twelve patients had chronic renal failure and 1 patient had chronic liver failure. …”
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Comparison of Long‐Term Outcomes for Responders Versus Non‐Responders Following Renal Denervation in Resistant Hypertension by Karl Fengler, Paul Reimann, Karl‐Philipp Rommel, Karl‐Patrik Kresoja, Stephan Blazek, Matthias Unterhuber, Christian Besler, Maximilian von Roeder, Michael Böhm, Steffen Desch, Holger Thiele, Philipp Lurz

“…During a median follow‐up time of 48 months, significantly less major adverse cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, stroke, myocardial infarction, critical limb ischemia, renal failure) occurred in responders than in non‐responders (22 versus 23 events, hazard ratio [HR], 0.53 [95% CI, 0.28 to 0.97], P=0.041). …”
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Long-term renal and cardiovascular outcome of living kidney donors: A single-center retrospective observation study by Vincenza Colucci, Pasquale Gallo, Simona Simone, Luigi Morrone, Carlo Maria Alfieri, Carlo Maria Alfieri, Loreto Gesualdo, Giuseppe Castellano, Giuseppe Castellano

“…At visit 1, two donors developed chronic renal failure, including one in ESKD who underwent a kidney transplant. …”
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Impact of baseline renal function on the efficacy and safety of different Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation Patients – A cohort study by Wei-Chieh Lee, Ting-Wei Liao, Hsiu-Yu Fang, Po-Jui Wu, Yen-Nan Fang, Huang-Chung Chen, Yu-Sheng Lin, Shang-Hung Chang, Ping-Yen Liu, Mien-Cheng Chen

“…Conclusion There did not appear to be major differences in bleeding or thromboembolic risk compared to warfarin in AF patients across a range of degree of renal failure when appropriate dose reductions of the DOACs are made.…”
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Clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with Nocardia genus detection by metagenomic next generation sequencing in a tertiary hospital from southern China by Yingjian Liang, Minmin Lin, Lidi Qiu, Meizhu Chen, Cuiyan Tan, Changli Tu, Xiaobin Zheng, Jing Liu

“…There are 3 individuals detected more than one kind of Nocardia species (Supplementary table 1). Except one with renal failure and one allergic to sulfamethoxazole, all of them received co-sulfonamide treatment and relieved eventually. …”
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The Value of Peripheral Blood Cell Ratios in Primary Membranous Nephropathy: A Single Center Retrospective Study by Zhang AH, Dai GX, Zhang QD, Huang HD, Liu WH

“…Forty percent of the patients continue to progress and eventually develop into chronic renal failure. Although phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) is the major antigen of PMN, the clinical features do not often parallel with the antibody titers. …”
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Impact of pre- and peri-operative risk factors on length of stay and hospital readmission following minimally-invasive partial nephrectomy by Vanessa A. Lukas, Rahul Dutta, Ashok K. Hemal, Matvey Tsivian, Timothy E. Craven, Nicholas A. Deebel, David D. Thiel, Ram Anil Pathak

“…For LOS greater than 3 days, undergoing non-elective surgery (OR=5.247), transfusion of greater than four units within 72 h prior to surgery (OR=5.072), pre-operative renal failure or dialysis (OR=2.941), and poor pre-operative functional status (OR=2.540) exhibited the strongest statistically significant associations. …”
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Clinical features of acute attacks, chronic symptoms, and long-term complications among patients with acute hepatic porphyria in Japan: a real-world claims database study by Yutaka Horie, Yuka Yasuoka, Tomohide Adachi

“…Long-term complications with higher incidence rates in the AHP population compared with the matched population included fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver (15.9% vs. 3.0% [12.9% difference]), polyneuropathies and other disorders of the peripheral nervous system (20.5% vs. 7.9% [12.6% difference]), liver cancer (16.9% vs. 4.7% [12.2% difference]), renal failure (16.4% vs. 4.3% [12.1% difference]), and hypertension (26.1% vs. 18.8% [7.3% difference]). …”
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Heparanase-2 protein and peptides have a protective effect on experimental glomerulonephritis and diabetic nephropathy by Baranca Buijsers, Marjolein Garsen, Mark de Graaf, Marinka Bakker-van Bebber, Chunming Guo, Chunming Guo, Xue Li, Xue Li, Johan van der Vlag

“…We postulate that inhibition of HPSE1 activity by HPSE2 is a promising therapeutic strategy to target albuminuria and resulting renal failure.Methods: First, we evaluated the regulation of HPSE2 expression in anti-GBM and LPS-induced glomerulonephritis, streptozotocin-induced diabetic nephropathy, and adriamycin nephropathy by qPCR and ELISA. …”
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Circular RNAs: An emerging precise weapon for diabetic nephropathy diagnosis and therapy by Haiying Shu, Zhen Zhang, Jieting Liu, Peijian Chen, Can Yang, Yan Wu, Dan Wu, Yanan Cao, Yanhui Chu, Luxin Li

“…Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a prevalent chronic microvascular complication associated with diabetes mellitus and represents a major cause of chronic kidney disease and renal failure. Current treatment strategies for DN primarily focus on symptom alleviation, lacking effective approaches to halt or reverse DN progression. …”
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Proportion Estimates of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) in Malaria by Thitinat Duangchan, Manas Kotepui, Suriyan Sukati, Yanisa Rattanapan, Kinley Wangdi

“…The estimates of DIC among severe malaria patients who had multi-organ dysfunction with bleeding, cerebral malaria, acute renal failure, and ≥2 complications were 79.6% (95% CI: 67.1–88.2%, one study), 11.9% (95% CI: 7.9–17.6%, one study), 16.7% (95% CI: 10.2–23.3%, ten studies), and 4.8% (95% CI: 1.9–7.7%, nine studies), respectively. …”
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Neonatal Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-N) Associated with Prenatal Maternal SARS-CoV-2: A Case Series by Ravindra Pawar, Vijay Gavade, Nivedita Patil, Vijay Mali, Amol Girwalkar, Vyankatesh Tarkasband, Sanjog Loya, Amit Chavan, Narendra Nanivadekar, Rahul Shinde, Uday Patil, Satyan Lakshminrusimha

“…Other findings included respiratory failure (40%), fever (10%), feeding intolerance (30%), melena (10%), and renal failure (5%). All infants had elevated inflammatory biomarkers and received steroids and IVIG. …”
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Does Maintaining a Targeted Abdominal Perfusion Pressure Reduce Renal Damage in Patients with Septic Shock?: A Randomized, Controlled, and Open-label Study by Hüseyin Özkarakaş, Zeki Tuncel Tekgül, Murat Arslan, Mehmet Uğur Bilgin, Hazal Ezgi Eker, Onur Okur, Bülent Çalık

“…The mortality rates were similar in the two groups and there was no difference in the rate of end-stage renal failure between the groups.…”
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Mitochondrial Damage and Mitochondria-Targeted Antioxidant Protection in LPS-Induced Acute Kidney Injury by Egor Y. Plotnikov, Irina B. Pevzner, Ljubava D. Zorova, Valery P. Chernikov, Andrey N. Prusov, Igor I. Kireev, Denis N. Silachev, Vladimir P. Skulachev, Dmitry B. Zorov

“…Upon mitochondrial damage, we evaluated the effect of the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant plastoquinol decylrhodamine 19 (SkQR1) on the development of acute renal failure in newborn rats associated with systemic inflammation induced by the administration of LPS. …”
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Sex-Associated Differences in Short-Term Outcomes in Patients with Deep Sternal Wound Infection after Open-Heart Surgery by Ihor Krasivskyi, Borko Ivanov, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Frederike Fehlau, Stephen Gerfer, Clara Großmann, Ahmed Elderia, Anton Sabashnikov, Parwis Baradaran Rahmanian, Navid Mader, Ilija Djordjevic, Thorsten Wahlers

“…The most commonly isolated bacteria from the wounds were Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus in both groups. Acute renal failure was significantly higher (<i>p</i> = 0.010) in the male group compared to the female group. …”
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Characteristics of Very Young Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Contemporary Assessment by Jennifer C. Wang, MD, Kevin C. Liu, BS, Brandon S. Gettleman, BS, Matthew Chen, BA, Amit S. Piple, MD, Jaewon Yang, MD, Nathanael D. Heckmann, MD, Alexander B. Christ, MD

“…Patients aged ≤30 years had lower rates of respiratory failure (0.16% vs 0.57%, P < .001), acute renal failure (0.32% vs 1.72%, P < .001), and urinary tract infection (0.38% vs 1.11%, P = .003) than those aged >30 years, but higher rates of wound dehiscence (0.59% vs 0.29%, P = .015) and transfusion (3.68% vs 2.21%, P < .001). …”
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Severe hemolytic exacerbations of Chinese PNH patients infected SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron by Hui Yang, Xingxing Chai, Yuemin Gong, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Wang, Xin Zhou, Xiaoyu Chen, Jinge Xu, Dan Xu, Guangsheng He, Jianyong Li

“…Glomerular filtration rate declined in 5 patients. 1 patient developed acute renal failure and underwent hemodialysis. Anemia and hemolysis were improved in 5 patients treated with eculizumab. …”
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Moshen granule ameliorates membranous nephropathy by regulating NF-ƙB/Nrf2 pathways via aryl hydrocarbon receptor signalling by Shi-Xing Ma, Xiao-Jun Li, Ting-Ting Duan, Ming Pei, Liang Zou, Xiao-Yong Yu, Ying-Yong Zhao

“…Although IMN patients are well diagnosed before they reach renal failure, no currently available drug intervention is effective in halting IMN progression. …”
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Falsely elevated troponin: rare occurrence or future problem by James Nguyen, Rosy Thachil, Neil Vyas, Thomas Marino

“…When an increased troponin value is encountered in the absence of myocardial infarction, other etiologies should be explored, including vasculitis, drug abuse, myocarditis, pulmonary embolism, sepsis, and renal failure. If the clinical picture is not consistent with the elevated lab value, it is necessary to think of other causes, including false-positive results. …”
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