Thursday, April 30, 2015
Link: CBC Article on 2015 Research towards the universal blood type
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-researchers-step-closer-to-creating-universal-blood-type-1.3056650
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Too much Iced Tea causes Kidney Failure - NEJM Article
Case Study: A man with kidney failure caused by oxalate toxicity from drinking a 16 glasses of black
iced tea a day... (Iced Tea has about 500 to 1000 mg of oxalate per litre; overloaded kidneys)
This is a short (but sweet!) case study involving both pathology and chemistry; patient comes in with weakness and body aches, initial blood work up shows high serum creatinine and a high number of calcium oxalate crystals in the urine.
Followup testing showed 24 hour urine oxalate excretion to be elevated; also a kidney biopsy showed oxalate crystals. Patient history revealed none of the usual causes for this (hx of gastric bypass, ethylene glycol poisoning, 'juicing', or vitamin C overdose), but above detailed habit of iced tea.
Interesting!
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