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In 1,095 high-risk abdominal-surgery patients, targeting each person's own cardiac index during the operation left the rate of major complications essentially unchanged — 44.3% versus 46.9%.
Severe dehydration from diarrhoeal disease and sepsis can shut down the kidneys. In a health system with little dialysis, a review argues this is a preventable driver of death that surveillance is missing.
One study maps the five barriers that delayed life-saving crush-syndrome care; another finds the long-term health burden of the disaster fell hardest on young women.
Across studies, current NSAID use was tied to about a 73% higher odds of acute kidney injury, more in older people and those with existing kidney disease. The combination with two blood-pressure drugs is the real hazard.
In a 500-patient ICU trial across seven countries, bicarbonate infusions for metabolic acidosis in patients on vasopressors did not lower major kidney events or death at 30 days.
A review explains why HIIT and CrossFit-style training can push exercise-induced muscle breakdown to the point of kidney injury, and what helps catch it earlier.
Across 111 runners completing up to four trials each, two consumer devices tracked the direction of fluid loss reasonably well but missed the amount by 25% to 33% on average.
Seventy-two runners were sampled before and after the 2024 Boston Marathon. Every marker of kidney and intestinal injury rose, and staying hydrated did not change that.
Pooling individual data from 23,340 people in four trials, empagliflozin cut kidney failure by 34% and slowed eGFR decline by 64% — regardless of how big an initial creatinine rise was expected.