SAN DIEGO — Rheumatologists treating patients with lupus nephritis should make a concerted effort to reduce or avoid use of NSAIDs and other nephrotoxic drugs in order to improve long-term outcomes, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recently published study found primary care physicians prescribed nephrotoxic medications to children with ...

Prevention of nephrotoxicity is clearly preferable to treatment, especially given the long life expectancy of survivors of childhood malignancy. General measures to reduce renal damage often include ...

Credit: istockphoto Two-thirds of studied patients were exposed to nephrotoxic medications, which was identified as a risk factor for RRT initiation. Nephrotoxic medication exposure was the only risk ...

Using electronic health record data from 92,616 ICU admissions at 13 Dutch hospitals, investigators found that 13,492 involved AKI (15%) based on serum creatinine criteria alone. After adjustment for ...

According to the authors, this is the first study to identify medications most commonly reported for a specific adverse reaction using this database. Acute kidney injury (AKI) was found to be a common ...

Morphoproteomics of mTORC2 pathway as resistance signature and activated ERK and STAT3 prosurvival/antiapoptotic pathways in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC ...

Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Key Takeaways Some medications, including certain antibiotics and NSAIDs, can harm the kidneys if used for too long or in high doses.ACE inhibitors and ARBs are ...

Credit: Getty Images In an unexpected finding, phosphodiesterase inhibitors and sympathomimetics with α- and β-effect were strongly associated with higher AKI risk in this analysis. High AKI risk was ...