Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received glucarpidase for acute kidney injury from methotrexate treatment had improved kidney ...

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Patients with methotrexate-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) had better odds of kidney recovery when treated with glucarpidase (Voraxaze), researchers found. Treatment with glucarpidase was ...

Glucarpidase may improve kidney function and other sequelae in patients with methotrexate-induced acute kidney injury. High-dose methotrexate frequently causes acute kidney injury (MTX-AKI), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly two-thirds of patients on conservative dialysis recovered kidney function after hospital discharge.

About The Study: A conservative dialysis strategy in dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury resulted in a shorter time to and higher rates of recovery of kidney function in the unadjusted analysis.

Raad B. Chowdhury, MD, and Shruti Gupta, MD, MPH, are onconephrologists in the Division of Nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare ...