Researchers have found that AKI is triggered by fatty molecules called ceramides, which cause serious injury by damaging ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that a genetic mutation that causes congenital heart disease also ...

Serious damage to short-term kidney function-known as acute kidney injury, or AKI-can be fatal and also increase the risk of ...

Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...

Five routine tests provide limited clinical value, and evidence-based alternatives can better guide diagnosis, risk for ...

Weaning patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) from dialysis while they are still hospitalized may save them from remaining ...

In recent years, the medical community, researchers, and health policy makers have increasingly recognized that many long-established and widely used clinical decision-making tools actually perpetuate ...

Kidney failure is a significant health problem that affects millions of people worldwide. In the past, treating kidney diseases was tough, with treatments often complex and challenging for patients.

Researchers have made a major medical breakthrough after they created human kidney organoids and transplanted them into pigs.