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Kidney toxicity

  

Side Effects > Kidney (renal) toxicity (nephrotoxicity)

Last update: 08/29/2004

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Here we will provide resources and research news related to kidney toxicity.  

Chemotherapy and renal toxicity: Hydration (drinking water) is one important step to preventing and perhaps helping to reverse the damage to the kidneys from chemotherapy drugs.

How to prevent, recognize, and treat drug-induced nephrotoxicity ~  - ccjm.org PDF | PDF-Help
XIAOQING GUO, MD Internal Medicine Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 
CHIKE NZERUE, MD Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Resources:
  1. Anticancer drug-induced kidney disorders.
    Drug Saf. 2001 Jan;24(1):19-38. Review. PMID: 11219485
  2. Nephrotoxicity from chemotherapy: prevention and management.
    Oncology (Huntingt). 1991 Oct;5(10):97-102, 105; disc. 105, 109-11. Review. PMID: 1838278
  3. High Incidence of Nephrotoxicity with Cisplatin Therapy Despite Adequate Hydration: Risk Factor Correlations (Meeting abstract). - ASCO
  4. Low urine osmolarity as a determinant of cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity.
    Int J Cancer. 2004 Aug 10;111(1):131-7. PMID: 15185354
 
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