Acute kidney injury

According to The Sydney Herald (2015), China has the second highest rate of transplants in the world. Patients only have to wait about 2 to 3 weeks until they can get the surgery. A former staff member of an anonymous Chinese hospital claimed that her doctor husband has removed 2,000 corneas while the patients were still alive. The body of the patients were then secretly incinerated. In China, organ transplantation has been condemned as impossible to understand and unethical. Critics claimed…

organs and ultimately multiple organ dysfunction, such as renal failure. Fluids can help reduce the risk of kidney damage. The provider should supportively explain these concepts of fluid loss, hypovolemic shock, and the prevention of kidney injury using simpler terms without jargon. Informing him of these concepts by explaining fluid loss similar can be done by using the example of a skin injury like a laceration or a burn. One should describe the oozing of serum and blood from…

Organ harvesting is a worldwide market that is illegal is every single country except for one. The process of selling organs is illegal in the United States and is referred to as the black market. Many people are willing to sell their organs in exchange for a great amount of money, so the people who run the black market, known as organ traffickers, target patients who have become desperate after waiting for the impossible. The illegal sale of organs is a world-wide problem that involves human…

Mucus, in a nonaffected individual, is thin and slick and protects the lining of many organs and tissues. Cystic fibrosis causes the body to over produce abnormally sticky and thick mucus, damaging organs and blocking the lungs. It may cause severe breathing issues and create and environment for bacteria to infect the lungs. Cystic fibrosis was discovered in 1938 by Dr. Dorothy Anderson and after more visibility, the disease prompted the creation of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research…

story more powerful. “A slide containing a small slice of his liver lay before me”, describes the only clue he was given to begin his work with. Then, later on the story he proceeds to “I began searching for other clues. There were none … no sign of injury or dying cell” explains…

number of people waiting for a transplant in Canada. Iran, the only country where organ trade is legal has a no shortage of organ donors as money is being offered for donation and due to poverty in the country they have a lot of donors (Dehghan, “Kidneys for Sale: Poor Iranians Compete to Sell Their Organs”). Since poverty in Canada is a lot lower than it is in Iran, Canada might not get as many donors as Iran has but definitely would end up having more donors than they do now. A scenario where…

• What other pertinent medical information would you want to ask Edith? I would like to find out more about when Edith was diagnosed with hypertension and high cholesterol, what medications or vitamins she takes, if she has a past surgical history and what her diet consists of (due to the fact that she presents with a 20lb weight loss). In addition, due to the daughter’s report of her mother’s worsening depression and worsening memory loss, I would be interested to know how involved her daughter…

The renal artery supplies blood to the kidney. The human kidneys receive approximately 25% of the blood pumped. Blood enters the capillaries of the nephron through the afferent arteriole. It then flows through the glomerulus and into the efferent arteriole. The varying sizes of these arterioles help to create the hydrostatic pressure and to maintain consistency of glomerular capillary pressure and renal blood flow within the glomerulus Before returning to the renal vein, blood from the…

3- Complications of Roux-en-Y Bypass: Table: Incidence and timings of postoperative complications after LRYGB Complication Incidence (%) Timing (early 1 month) GI bleed 1–2 Early Leak 1–2 Early/intermediate Ulcers and GG fistula 4 Late GI obstruction 5 Late but may occur early/intermediate Thromboembolism 0.1–1.3 Early/intermediate Skin complications variable Late Nutritional complications (of some degree) variable Late Metabolic complications…

Renal complications Renal damage is almost inevitable in sickle-cell disease. There is a strong tendency for HbS to polymerise in the renal medulla, because of the low partial pressure of oxygen, the low pH, and the high osmolality causing erythrocyte dehydration. The consequent vaso-occlusion causes renal infarction with papillary necrosis, and medullary fibrosis with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Other complications include haematuria, renal medullary carcinoma, nocturnal enuresis…