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Kidney Failure
Research from Rangueil University has provided new information about kidney failure
July 6th, 2009
According to recent research from Toulouse, France, "Fungi poisoning is quite frequent: in particular, Amanita phalloides has life-threatening toxicity." "It is responsible for fulminant hepatitis, and also has renal toxicity. Herein, we report on a patient who developed acute renal failure after ingesting A. phalloides, which required definitive renal replacement therapy, despite rapid liver injury recovery," wrote C. Garrouste and colleagues, Rangueil University. The researchers concluded: "A kidney biopsy showed massive acute tubular necrosis, mainly in the proximal convoluted tubule, and mild interstitial infiltration by mononuclear...
Source: Gastroenterology Week (2009-07-06)
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