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It is the signs, symptoms and results from laboratory tests which result from inadequate excretory, regulatory, and endocrine function of the kidneys. [2] Both uremia and uremic syndrome have been used interchangeably to denote a very high plasma urea concentration that is the result of renal failure. [1]
Hemolytic–uremic syndrome (HUS) is a group of blood disorders characterized by low red blood cells, acute kidney injury (previously called acute renal failure), and low platelets. [1] [3] Initial symptoms typically include bloody diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and weakness. [1] [2] Kidney problems and low platelets then occur as the diarrhea ...
Before the advancement of modern medicine, acute kidney injury was referred to as uremic poisoning while uremia was contamination of the blood with urine. Starting around 1847, uremia came to be used for reduced urine output, a condition now called oliguria , which was thought to be caused by the urine's mixing with the blood instead of being ...
A Colo. teen says she has been battling a rare complication from E. coli poisoning in the hospital ... hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, which is one of the rare symptoms associated ...
Symptoms of kidney failure include the following ... renal failure was often referred to as uremic poisoning. Uremia was the term for the contamination of the blood ...
The symptoms and signs of Bright's disease were first described in 1827 by the English physician Richard Bright, after whom the disease was named. In his Reports of Medical Cases , [ 2 ] he described 25 cases of dropsy ( edema ) which he attributed to kidney disease.
Here are 6 fast-food chains that had the worst food poisoning outbreaks. ... Over half of the victims were hospitalized, and 13 developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening ...
Hemoglobinuria; Other names: Haemoglobinuria: Structure of hemoglobin: Specialty: Urology, nephrology: Symptoms: Disease, Hemolytic anemia, Proteinuria: Causes: Acute glomerulonephritis; Burns; Renal cancer; Malaria; Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria; Microangiopathies, e.g. hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) leading to microangiopathic hemolytic ...