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3 unusual facts about Renal failure


Luciano Galletti

In early February 2010, Galletti was diagnosed with severe kidney failure, causing him to miss the rest of the season.

Metal toxicity

Significant toxic effects and accumulation to tissues have been observed in renally impaired patients.

Renal failure

The APOL1 gene has been proposed as a major genetic risk locus for a spectrum of nondiabetic renal failure in individuals of African origin, these include HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN), primary nonmonogenic forms of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, and hypertension affiliated chronic kidney disease not attributed to other etiologies.


Adolfo Alsina

Trying to understand the native peoples, he decided to study the situation personally; but he fell ill while in the pampas town of Carhué, and died of renal failure, aged 48.

Anemia of chronic disease

Anemia of chronic disease as it is now understood is to at least some degree separate from the anemia seen in renal failure in which anemia results from poor production of erythropoietin, or the anemia caused by some drugs (like AZT, used to treat HIV infection) that have the side effect of inhibiting erythropoiesis.

Anton Balasingham

After she died due to the complications of chronic renal failure, he married Adele Ann Wilby in London, UK, in 1978.

Clinical Systems and Networks

The setting of objectives and the choice of criteria relating to the healthcare provided for a condition such as Parkinson Disease or Renal Failure has a number of benefits, notably

Haseeb Ahsan

Ahsan suffered from Renal failure for two years and was on dialysis, and was admitted at the Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi.

Wolf Messing

He had successful surgery on the femoral and iliac arteries, but for some unknown reason death occurred in a couple of days, after renal failure and pulmonary edema.


see also

Canadian Organ Replacement Registry

The Canadian Organ Replacement Registry CORR is a health organisation was started by Canadian nephrologists and kidney transplant surgeons in 1985 in order to develop the care of patients with renal failure.

Nils Alwall

Subsequently he used such shunts, made of glass, as well as his canister-enclosed dialyzer, to treat 1500 patients in renal failure between 1946 and 1960, as reported to the First International Congress of Nephrology held in Evian in September 1960.