Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Pivot Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Target Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Query: UMLS:C0022672 (
acute tubular necrosis
)
2,175
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
A specific medical therapy for 'the hepatorenal syndrome' (HRS) is not available. However, the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the development of HRS leads to new therapeutic approaches to this syndrome of functional renal failure. Recognition and prevention of precipitating factors, the correction and treatment of prerenal failure and
acute tubular necrosis
are particularly important in the treatment of patients with liver cirrhosis, ascites and hepato-renal failure.
Vasoconstrictor
agents (ornipressin, dopamine) are administered to achieve an improvement of the systemic circulation. Definitive therapy of HRS is liver transplantation.
...
PMID:[Therapy of hepatorenal syndrome]. 906 19
