Roody Menager; Rebecca St Louis; Anst Gelin; Flawendjee Djaweelentz Jacques – This case discusses a 36-year-old man presented to the ED with dyspnea, fever, abdominal pain, and abdominal distention in the area where an intra-abdominal tumor was reported. After ultrasound-guided aspiration, pyonephrosis was diagnosed. In the absence of other capable specialists, the emergency physician performed a percutaneous nephrostomy procedure, and eight liters of pus were removed.
María Muñiz Rincón; Diego Barbieri, MD; Virginia López de la Manzanara; Elena Ruiz Ferreras; Arianne Aiffil Meneses; Carlos Fernández Fernández; Cristina Riaza Ortiz; Rómulo Loayza López; Jose Antonio Herrero Calvo; Ana I. Sanchez-Fructuoso
– This study investigates variations in fluid overload using point of care ultrasound (POCUS). It assesses patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) with full and drained peritoneum and their correlation with clinical parameters.
Santiago Beltramino; Agustín Manchado Bruno; Damián Fernández; Javier Walther; Gustavo Werber – Systemic venous congestion is a known cause of acute kidney injury (AKI), but its presence in kidney transplant patients has not been previously described in the literature. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of systemic venous congestion in recent kidney transplant recipients. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal, descriptive study including 30 adult patients during the first week post-renal transplant at the Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.