Elevated serum creatinine levels often signal impaired kidney function, commonly resulting from conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), dehydration or acute kidney injury (AKI).

Elevated serum creatinine levels often signal impaired kidney function, commonly resulting from conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), dehydration or acute kidney injury (AKI). Traditionally ...

A level of 60 ml/minute indicates kidney disease. Kidneys can filter up to 150 quarts of blood each day in the body of the average adult. The Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (EGFR) is a way of ...

By the time you reach kidney failure, however, your symptoms have usually become severe and may even be debilitating. By this point, your kidneys are barely functioning, or are not working at all.

The kidney failure risk equation (KRFE) helps predict a person’s risk of kidney failure. Doctors may use it to guide treatment decisions for people with mid to late stage chronic kidney disease ...

Diabetes is a leading cause of kidney failure. High blood glucose levels can damage the kidneys and reduce their ability to remove waste products from the bloodstream. If the kidneys sustain too ...

Real-World Implementation: Proenkephalin A 119-159 (penKid) has been successfully integrated into daily practice in intensive care unit (ICU), demonstrating its effectiveness in assessing kidney ...

Compared with patients without CKD, those with CKD were older, more likely to have NYHA class III or IV HF, had a higher N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide level, had worse 6-minute walk ...

Deb's team is now working to establish a blood test to measure Col5a1 levels in human patients with chronic kidney disease to establish a clinical threshold for identifying at-risk individuals.