Early detection and new biomarkers are changing how we manage acute kidney injury—and its link to chronic kidney disease.

Nephrons flow between these sections. Each nephron includes a filter, called the glomerulus, and a tubule. The glomerulus filters blood, which enters the kidneys through the renal arteries and ...

Most of these trials have several confounding variables -- i.e, serum creatinine, renal blood flow, and urine volume -- that limit the applicability of the results. Although low-dose dopamine has ...

A GFR score under 60 may mean kidney disease. A creatinine clearance ... might indicate poorly functioning kidneys or decreased blood flow to them. All theblood in your body flows through your ...

In a world first, Canadian scientists at the CRCHUM, the hospital research center affiliated with Université de Montréal, ...