What Causes Hyponatremia?
Discussion
Normal kidneys regulate water balance to maintain a plasma osmolality of 275-290 mOsm/kg normally. Thirst and arginine vasopressin or antidiuretic hormone (ADH) are the primary regulators of plasma osmolality. ADH is made in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland. ADH acts on the kidney’s distal collecting duct to increase water reabsorption. ADH is appropriately released in hypovolemic states, such as dehydration caused by gastroenteritis. ADH has an ~10 minute half-life and therefore can respond to rapid changes in volume status. Sodium balance is regulated by aldosterone (as part...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 23, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Holi colours carry heavy metal risk; can cause renal failure, blindness
Experts warn that Holi colours may contain heavy metals that could have a number of harmful health effects in the long run; the use of herbal colours is an advisable alternative. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - March 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Former Boston City Councilor John Nucci Waits For A New Kidney
BOSTON (CBS) – John Nucci, a former Boston City Councilor, has developed a genetic disorder and desperately needs a kidney.
Nucci is battling Polycystic Kidney Disease and is in the final stages of renal failure.
He joined Liam Martin and Paula Ebben on WBZ-TV to discuss Kidney Awareness Month and how to become a living a donor.
For more information visit: www.mghlivingdonors.org (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health Local News Syndicated Local John Nucci Kidney liam martin Paula Ebben Polycystic Kidney Disease Source Type: news
Severe caffeine poisoning with rhabdomyolysis - Wolter J, Gr ün D, Ottó S.
We report the case of a young man who took a large amount of caffeine powder dissolved in water in a suicide attempt. He was found comatose. The initial diagnosis was difficult. In hospital he suffered from rhabdomyolysis with renal failure and sepsis ra... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Yemen: Conflict Puts Renal Failure Patients ’ Lives at Risk
Press releaseYemen: Conflict Puts Renal Failure Patients ’ Lives at RiskFebruary 08, 2018The lives of thousands of renal failure patients are in danger as kidney treatment centers in war-ravaged Yemen close or struggle to function, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Thursday. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - February 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Brienne Prusak Source Type: news
Grandfather's family uses Facebook to find him a kidney
Dan Desmarais, 60, from Sandwich, Massachusetts, suffers from Alport Syndrome, a genetic condition that causes loss of kidney function, and is in the late stages of renal failure. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Integrating Kidney Transplantation Into Value-Based Care Integrating Kidney Transplantation Into Value-Based Care
The expansion of a comprehensive care model for the care of patients with renal failure will ensure the provision of quality care while reducing costs.American Journal of Transplantation (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplantation Journal Article Source Type: news
Living kidney donors have low but elevated risk of renal failure
(Reuters Health) - Kidney donors may be no more likely than other people to develop chronic health problems like diabetes or high blood pressure but they may still have an increased risk of renal failure, a research review suggests. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
An Overview of Acute Kidney Injury and Considerations for Treatment
An overview of renal failure & considerations for treatment
Among critically ill and injured patients, maintaining homeostasis and preserving adequate organ function is always the primary objective of our care. However, the sequela of our most frequently encountered disease processes can greatly impact this goal.
When derangements in homeostasis progress to organ dysfunction, patients can quickly become critically ill, with steadily increasing mortality rates. One of the first systems to derail because of critical illness are the kidneys. When renal dysfunction occurs as a result of an acute illness, an e...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Robert P. Girardeau, BS, NREMT-P, FP-C Tags: Patient Care Source Type: news
An Overview of Acute Kidney Injury and Considerations for Treatment
An overview of renal failure & considerations for treatment
Among critically ill and injured patients, maintaining homeostasis and preserving adequate organ function is always the primary objective of our care. However, the sequela of our most frequently encountered disease processes can greatly impact this goal.
When derangements in homeostasis progress to organ dysfunction, patients can quickly become critically ill, with steadily increasing mortality rates. One of the first systems to derail because of critical illness are the kidneys. When renal dysfunction occurs as a result of an acute illness, an experienced, mu...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Robert P. Girardeau, BS, NREMT-P, FP-C Tags: Patient Care Source Type: news
Real-world Study Reassures on Dabigatran Stroke, ICH Rates Real-world Study Reassures on Dabigatran Stroke, ICH Rates
But results confirm gastrointestinal bleeding risk, particularly in the elderly and those with renal failure, and questions over the MI risk still remain.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Delayed sensorimotor neuropathy and renal failure: an additional report in a patient with diethylene glycol poisoning - Kamada H, Suzuki H, Nomura R, Kushimoto S.
[Abstract unavailable]
Language: en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Poisoning Source Type: news
What Causes White Nails?
Discussion
The nail matrix covers the area of the nail plate, and extends proximally in a crescent moon shape with the edges of the crescent extending proximally and inferiorly toward the underlying bone. The nail matrix is a multilayered epithelium that physiologically produces keratinization and gives rise to the nail plate. The distal matrix forms the lower 2/3s of the nail plate and the proximal matrix forms the upper 1/3 of the nail plate. the thickness of the nail plate is proportion to the matrix’s thickness. The nail plate’s free edge contour follows the shape of the nail’s lunula. Melanocytes occ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 6, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Don ’t Just Digitize. Embrace Digitalization
In June, the Techtour Healthtech Summit returned to Lausanne with an overarching theme of the convergence of medtech and digital health, and the search for a successful digital business model.Although there were two tracks – medtech and digital health – there were digital health companies in the medtech stream and lab companies in the digital health stream that felt very much like medtech.One way to tease apart this convergence and to ask how future business models may evolve is to look at whether companies simplydigitizeanalog processes or fullydigitalize.The digitization of an analog process aims to deliver efficienc...
Source: EyeForPharma - November 1, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Douglas Haggstrom Source Type: news
