[Chronic kidney disease : What is currently available for treatment?] / Chronische Niereninsuffizienz : Was ist gesichert in der Therapie?

Chronic kidney disease is common in the general population with an estimated prevalence of roughly 2 million in Germany. Typically, chronic kidney disease is progressive and in the terminal stage the patients require dialysis or kidney transplantation. In many cases the disease remains silent for a long time but early stages are already associated with increasing morbidity and mortality. Therefore early detection is very important. In recent years several new concepts have been introduced that might help to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease or improve the accompanying risks. Here, we want to provide a nephrologist's perspective on the current guidelines for the treatment and prevention of chronic kidney disease. We summarize which diagnostic approaches are useful for general practitioners and we take a pragmatic look at the existing opportunities for combating renal functional decline. We also shed light on established measures to minimize the risk of comorbidities.

[Successful hemodialysis for life-threatening carbamazepine drug overdose: Case-based introduction of new guidelines]. / Erfolgreiche Hämodialyse bei lebensbedrohlicher Carbamazepinintoxikation : Vorstellung neuer Leitlinien anhand eines Fallberichts.

BACKGROUND: Over the last decade, there has been a paradigm shift in the extracorporeal treatment of intoxications. The availability of new treatment options, especially new membranes has led to a decrease in the use of techniques like charcoal hemoperfusion, once considered the gold standard to eliminate highly protein bound substances. EXTRIP GUIDELINES: The EXtracorporeal Treatments In Poisoning (EXTRIP) workgroup is a collaborative international effort of pharmacologists, toxicologists, critical care physicians, and nephrologists that is reviewing all available evidence in extracorporeal procedures for the treatment of poisonings in a standardized way to distill treatment recommendations for the physician at the bedside. One of the first available EXTRIP guidelines summarizes treatment recommendations for severe carbamazepine intoxications. CASE REPORT: We report the case of a 43-year-old Caucasian woman with who ingested about 21 g carbamazepine in a suicidal attempt together with alcohol. Combining gastroscopic removal of carbamazepine and multiple dose activated charcoal with intermittent high-flux hemodialysis lowered the initial carbamazepine level of 56.5 mg/l (47 mg/l before dialysis) to 25 mg/l. The patient, who initially required mechanical ventilation could be transferred to the psychiatric ward 24 h after ICU admission.