Sentences with phrase «kidney injury when»

He says patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease are among the most vulnerable to sustain acute kidney injury when hospitalized.

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Notably, this new study shows that when a workforce has access to water, rest, and shade, the rates of CKDu onset and kidney injury are lower, and the injury is less severe than that seen in previous studies.

«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C patient, the heart of a patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Prkidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney PrKidney Program.

NGAL is also released at the time of acute kidney injury (AKI) unlike serum creatinine, another kidney diagnostic biomarker which may not be seen until 72 hours after injury when up to 50 % of renal function may have been lost.

It can provide a bridge to renal recovery when animals are thought to have a kidney injury that they can recover from if given more time.