• Kidney ischemia is a disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate. Blood vessels shrink and undergo apoptosis which results in poor blood flow in...
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    the skin. Kidney ischemia is a loss of blood flow to the kidney cells. Several physical symptoms include shrinkage of one or both kidneys, renovascular...
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    eating. Risk factors for acute intestinal ischemia include atrial fibrillation, heart failure, chronic kidney failure, being prone to forming blood clots...
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    BUN-to-creatinine ratio Chronic kidney disease Dialysis Genitourinary tract injury Kidney failure Rhabdomyolysis Contrast-induced nephropathy Ischemia-reperfusion injury...
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    pulmonary edema or myocardial ischemia may occur. In the kidneys, chronic hypertension has a great impact on the kidney vasculature, leading to pathologic...
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    through its tissues, causing ischemia. The resulting overload can lead to the clogging and the destruction of the kidneys. It is a reperfusion injury that...
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    Coronary ischemia, myocardial ischemia, or cardiac ischemia, is a medical term for abnormally reduced blood flow in the coronary circulation through the...
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    (2016). "Mitochondria-Targeted Antioxidants: Future Perspectives in Kidney Ischemia Reperfusion Injury". Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2016:...
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  • this ischemia and subsequent reperfusion on post-traumatic musculoskeletal tissues is unknown; however, it is likely that similar to cardiac and kidney tissue...
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    The vasa recta of the kidney, (vasa recta renis) are the straight arterioles, and the straight venules of the kidney, – a series of blood vessels in the...
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    Reperfusion injury, sometimes called ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) or reoxygenation injury, is the tissue damage caused when blood supply returns to...
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    in tissue death (ischemia). Risk factors for HN include poorly controlled, moderate-to-severe hypertension, older age, other kidney disorders, and Afro-Caribbean...
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    pheochromocytoma, deoxycorticosterone- or renin-secreting tumors, and kidney ischemia. Excess consumption of licorice can inhibit 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase...
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    The proximal tubule is the segment of the nephron in kidneys which begins from the renal pole of the Bowman's capsule to the beginning of loop of Henle...
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  • Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (category Ischemia)
    ventilation. The kidneys are the third most sensitive organ to ischemia. Prolonged renal ischemia from cardiac arrest leads to acute kidney injury (AKI) in...
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    due to ischemia of the renal papillae, the portion of the kidney that collects urine from the nephron. The papillae are vulnerable to ischemia as they...
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  • (NOMI) is a life-threatening condition including all types of mesenteric ischemia without mesenteric obstruction. It mainly affects patients above 50 years...
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  • activation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) via microvascular ischemia.[citation needed] Initially, the majority of cases that were described...
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    kidneys, limbs, and mesentery. ATE can cause life-threatening conditions, such as stroke, myocardial infarction, acute kidney injury, limb ischemia,...
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  • Less common causes include tumor lysis syndrome, seizures, and prolonged ischemia. Diagnosis is based on a blood level of magnesium greater than 1.1 mmol/L...
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    diverticulitis, intestinal obstruction, colonic carcinoma, mesenteric ischemia, leaking aortic aneurysm Murphy's sign McBurney's point Superficial anatomy...
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    Renal infarction (category Kidney diseases)
    incidence of renal infarction among patients who visit the ED was 0.007%. Kidney ischemia Renal artery stenosis Saju, Jiya Mulayamkuzhiyil; Leslie, Stephen W...
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  • vocalizations and myoclonus.: 164, 166  Possible causes include cerebral ischemia, extreme hypoxia (inadequate oxygen supply to tissue), or even anoxia (total...
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    medium-sized muscular arteries, typically involving the arteries of the kidneys and other internal organs but generally sparing the lungs' circulation...
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    angina', this refers to the classic type of angina related to myocardial ischemia. A typical presentation of stable angina is that of chest discomfort and...
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    blood supply and leads to damage of the tissue supplied by that artery (ischemia and necrosis). A piece of either an arterial or a venous thrombus can break...
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    necrosis occurs primarily in tissues such as the kidney, heart and adrenal glands. Severe ischemia most commonly causes necrosis of this form. Liquefactive...
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    homology to bacterial heat shock endoprotease HtrA and is regulated by kidney ischemia". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275 (4): 2581–8. doi:10.1074/jbc...
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  • to minimize risk of TIA and stroke. There are three major mechanisms of ischemia in the brain: embolism traveling to the brain, in situ thrombotic occlusion...
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    coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac...
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