Not exact matches
«Once patients
develop acute
kidney injury, their length of hospitalization increases, they command many more resources and, most saddening, their risk of mortality increases significantly.
In turn, the
injury in the heart muscle after a heart attack
develops a progressive signal that triggers structural pathology and complications in the
kidneys, which can affect survival in heart attack patients.
For the simvastatin example, roughly one to two percent of patients who take the ubiquitous drug
develop myopathy, a painful muscle
injury that can lead to
kidney complications and death in its most severe forms.
Some dogs display mild or no signs of disease, while others
develop severe illness or death, often as a result of
kidney injury.
It is also possible for animals with longer standing chronic
kidney disease (CKD) to
develop an acute
injury; in these cases, owners will likely note a sudden worsening of clinical signs.
Path to Pet Wellness: Although the incidence of acute
kidney injury (AKI) is unknown, previously published estimates of CKD incidence in the general population of dogs and cats have been around 0.5 % to 1.5 %.1, 2 However, 1 recent study demonstrated that 30 % of geriatric cats
developed azotemia over the course of 1 year, 3 suggesting that CKD is likely more common than realized.
Three studies from 2015 and 2016 showed evidence that patients who were currently taking Nexium were twice as likely to sustain an acute
kidney injury, that patients had a 20 to 50 percent higher chance of
developing chronic
kidney disease, and that patients taking Nexium had a 44 percent higher risk of
developing dementia.
Patients may have to live with the risk of
developing blood clots, and may have suffered permanent
kidney injury or other irreversible damage to vital organs.