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Chicago Sports Fan... Nephrologist by day. My tweets are not medical advice. The views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.

May 21, 2019, 10 tweets

Looking forward to #Nephpearls from #37VicenzaCourse 🇮🇹

Renal Functional Reserve
📌 The difference between the stress (peak) GFR achieved by stimulation & baseline GFR
📌 Identifies the capacity of the kidney to compensate/ increase its function in states of demand/ disease
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👉🏼 karger.com/Article/Pdf/36…

AKI or kidney attack may damage a variable number of nephrons.
In a subject w/ intact RFR, up to 50% of the nephrons can be damaged without any clinical evidence of baseline GFR reduction or increase in creatinine.
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👉🏼 karger.com/Article/Pdf/36…

Complete or partial recovery (from AKI) of renal function can be determined by the assessment of the RFR
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👉🏼 karger.com/Article/Pdf/36…

Renal functional reserve testing can identify at-risk individuals for postoperative AKI ca. 2018
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👉🏼 annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-…

Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT): 40 year Anniversary ca. 2017 from @croncoIRRIV
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👉🏼 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

The first international consensus conference on CRRT ca. 2002 from @Kidney_Int
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👉🏼 kidney-international.org/article/S0085-…

The spectrum of inflammatory molecules
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👉🏼 cytosorbents.com/products/cyto-…

Adsorption spectrum: in vitro/ in vivo data
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👉🏼 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

When the gods of AKI meet ...

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