Characteristics and outcome of postpartum acute kidney injury requiring dialysis: A single-center experience from North India.

Postpartum acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the serious complications of pregnancy and is associated with high mortality and morbidity. We conducted this study to determine the characteristics and outcome of the most severe form of postpartum AKI requiring dialysis. This prospective, observational study was conducted in Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur.

Acute Stylet Peritoneal Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury: The Soul Never Dies.

Background: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) has a significant mortality rate. In developing countries, mortality due to AKI is high due to lack of access to dialysis facilities and related cost. The main goal of International Society of Nephrology (ISN) 0 by 25 initiative is to eliminate deaths due to AKI.

Profile of glomerular diseases associated with hepatitis B and C: A single-center experience from India.

Hepatitis B and C are known to affect kidneys in a number of ways. Glomerular diseases associated with hepatitis B and C include membranous nephropathy (MN), membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, immunoglobulin A nephropathy, rarely amyloidosis, and fibrillary and immunotactoid glomerulopathy. In a retrospective analysis of kidney biopsy of 534 patients, we found 16 (2.