Cocaine and it's effect on the kidney. A quick bullet point list of what cocaine can do to the kidney.
1. Acute renal failure due to Rhabdomyolysis
2. Renal infarction
3. Severe HTN and eventually chronic renal disease---> ESRD
4. TMA
5. Severe arterioscloerosis
6. Levamisol adulterated cocaine leading to ANCA vasculitis
Few nice reviews
http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/299.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15335299
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108023450507
Friday, August 28, 2015
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