Category: Acute Kidney Injury
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 24, 2016
Excellent study on Pediatric AKI in today’s NEJM
Today’s NEJM has an excellent Original Article from Dr Goldstein’s group on Pediatric AKI- the results of the AWARE study. It also has an Editorial on it. Â This large, prospective, multinational study of the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in children and young adults in ICUs showed that acute kidney injury occurred in one quarter
November 24, 2016
An honor to host my mentor!
It was an honor to host my mentor, Dr Stanley Jordan, Director, Nephrology & Kidney Transplantation, Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, LA, CA, USA at our centre this month. He is an excellent mentor and a human being. Learnt a lot from him!