Tag: Renal
Renal toxicity
Introduction:
The extraordinary growth of interventional radiology techniques has led us to regularly expose patients with the nephrotoxic potential of iodinated contrast media (ICP).Acute renal...
Anemia of chronic renal failure
Introduction:
The IRC publications on anemia are extremely numerous and American, European and more recently French recommendations, under the aegis of the French Agency for...
Complications of chronic renal failure
Spinal hypoplasia:
Anemia is constant during chronic renal failure (CRF), with the exception of polycystic disease.
It worsens along with the decrease in glomerular filtration. The main...
Cardiovascular consequences of chronic renal failure
INTRODUCTION:
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for more than 50% of deaths in patients with renal failure treated with chronic hemodialysis. Heart complications alone account for 40%...
Acute renal failure in renal transplantation
Introduction :
Acute renal failure (ARI) in the renal transplant patient is an acute decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). The IRA in the transplant recipient...
Acute renal failure and pregnancy
Epidemiology:
The frequency of acute renal failure (ARI) in pregnancy is very different in developed and developing countries. Prevalence and prognosis data can not be interpreted...
Alternative techniques for end-stage renal failure
INTRODUCTION:
In France, the annual incidence of end-stage renal failure is 6 children / 1 million children under 15, ie 1.2 pediatric patients / 1...
Acute renal insufficiency
Generalities:
Acute renal failure (ARF) represents 20% of the ARI etiologies. Its incidence is increasing because of the emergence of new potentially nephrotoxic molecules and the...
Renal osteodystrophy
Introduction:
The term "renal osteodystrophy" refers to all bone and visceral complications related to disturbances of phosphocalcic metabolism.These can be the direct consequence of renal...
Transplantation in diabetic patients with renal insufficiency
Introduction :
The leading cause of kidney failure in the United States, and also rising in France, diabetes is spreading in an almost "epidemic" mode. Its...
