Category: Acute Kidney Injury

November 26, 2024

Point of Care Ultrasound in Critically Sick Children with AKI

Sharing a Review by our group on ‘Point of Care Ultrasound in Critically Sick Children with AKI’ published today in ‘Indian Pediatrics’ journal. [Link https://indianpediatrics.net/epub092024/CHT-00706.pdf ] Also attaching a Suggested Curriculum for Pediatric Nephrology Fellows by PCCRT-ICONIC group (published in Kidney360) [Link https://journals.lww.com/…/point_of_care_ultrasound… ] & a position statement by International Alliance for POCUS in Nephrology

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January 27, 2024

NEPHRO-ZEBRA – a neonate with severe jaundice, persistent thrombocytopenia & recurrent acute kidney injury later in childhood: Joining the dots!

What should we think, if we get a child with thrombotic microangiopathy, recurrent episodes of AKI with a history of severe neonatal jaundice needing an exchange transfusion. This week in ‘J Nephrology’, we publish a ‘Nephro-Zebra Quiz’ for the fellows. Full text link is here https://rdcu.be/dwQCh

October 27, 2023

Artificial intelligence in early detection and prediction of pediatric/neonatal acute kidney injury: current status and future directions

As you are aware that PCRRT-ICONIC group is working on AI & Predictive Models for AKI prediction in neonates and children. This week, we publish a comprehensive review on the same in ‘Pediatric Nephrology’. The review covers all basics and all attempts done in the field. Read More

October 16, 2023

Sudden Spurt in Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Cases in Uzbekistan: A Call for International Drug Quality Control and Pharmaceutical Legislation

An urgent international call for drug regulation published by our group in kidney360 journal this week in collaboration with colleagues from Uzbekistan. This is about sudden spurt of Pediatric AKI cases all across the world in Africa, Indonesia and now Uzbekistan. Read More

June 12, 2023

Diagnosing Etiology by Urine Microscopy in Sudden Spurt of Acute Kidney Injury Cases: Going Back to the Basics

Recently, a sudden rise of acute kidney injury in children has been reported from Indonesia, Gambia, and a few other countries. The suspected cause of these cases appeared to be from adulteration of cough, cold and fever medications with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) in place of the more expensive, non-toxic solvent glycerol.

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March 29, 2023

Neonatal acute kidney injury risk stratification score: STARZ study

Happy to see extensive buzz about STARZ (named after lead investigators- Sidharth Sethi, Tibrewal, Agrawal, Rupesh Raina, Sanjay waZir) NEONATAL AKI RISK STRATIFICATION SCORE in print media in India! Finally some attention towards Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury is coming up !!! This score predicts kidney injury in newborns, and is useful especially in less resourced

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May 22, 2022

Point of Care Ultrasound Course for Residents

In an effort to incorporate ‘Point of Care Ultrasound for assessment of a critical child with acute kidney injury’ in teaching core curriculum for Residents & Young Faculty, we have planned an ‘Online Course on Point of Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Nephrology’ with assessment based on OSCE after the course on 4-5 June. The planned

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May 18, 2022

Risk factors and outcomes of neonates with acute kidney injury needing peritoneal dialysis

We are currently involved in the largest ever prospective study in neonates since 2017 (TINKER study), with 11 centers across India, led by Dr Wazir, Dr Gopal Agrawal, me and Dr Rupesh Raina (Cleveland Clinic, USA). Here’s our data on risk factors and outcomes of neonates who needed peritoneal dialysis published today in ‘Peritoneal Dialysis

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April 3, 2022

Point of Care Ultrasound for assessment of a critical child with acute kidney injury

In an effort to incorporate ‘Point of Care Ultrasound for assessment of a critical child with acute kidney injury’ in teaching core curriculum for Residents & Young Faculty, we have planned an ‘Online Course on Point of Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Nephrology’ with assessment based on OSCE after the course on 4-5 June. The planned

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September 21, 2021

Perioperative albuminuria and clinical model to predict acute kidney injury in paediatric cardiac surgery

Happy & Proud to share with you that our DNB Nephrology Postgraduate Dr Arushi Nautiyal who did thesis with Dr Shyam Bansal and Dr Rajesh Sharma and me, got published in ‘Pediatric Nephrology’ journal today! It’s a landmark paper on AKI Risk Prediction for children undergoing a cardiac surgery. It emphasises the need to assess

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December 28, 2018

Disparities in dialysis in children

HYPOTHESIS: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with a pediatric incidence ranging from 19.3% to 24.1%. Treatment of pediatric AKI is a source of debate in varying geographical regions. Currently CRRT is the treatment for pediatric AKI, but limitations due to cost and accessibility force use of adult

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August 29, 2018

Your child hospitalised? It can increase his risk of this deadly disease

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality globally. According to a study published in the Lancet Journal on ‘incidence and outcomes of neonatal acute kidney injury’, in four countries – India, Canada, USA and Australia, almost one out of every three new-borns when hospitalised for any illness and administered intravenous

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