Acute kidney failure is a serious condition in which a loss in function is found in the kidneys that no longer allows them to remove urine and other waste without also losing electrolytes. Acute kidney failure happens very suddenly and is dangerous so it is considered a medical emergency. Some of the causes of acute kidney failure include decreased blood flow, which can be during childbirth that results in hemorrhaging, and other tendencies that amount to clotting within the thin blood vessels of the kidney. Patients that endure acute kidney failure can experience the following symptoms: stoppage in urination, ankle, leg, and feet swelling, fluid retention, fluctuations in mood, loss of appetite, high blood pressure, nosebleeds, and seizures.
Since acute kidney failure is heavily linked to liquid retention, the treatment plan for a patient with acute kidney failure is to limit the amount of liquid intake. This is to be consistent in limiting liquid that the patient can eat and drink proportionate to the amount of urine that can be produced naturally. Some complications that might arise when experiencing acute kidney failure are later stage renal disease, heart complications, loss of blood in the intestines, and chronic kidney problems. If you are currently experiencing any complications with producing urine and or incurring swelling all over the body you are showing some signs of acute kidney failure, it is imperative for you to seek medical attention.
One of the causes of acute kidney failure, the decreased blood flow from surgery has a story behind it. A drug called Trasylol was predominately used in heart surgeries to limit the amount of blood, sound familiar? Well it should. Trasylol has been liked to cause kidney failure in patients that had been administered the drug. After patients were administered Trasylol in surgery, they experienced acute kidney failure, heart problems, strokes, and even death. These patients had no idea where these other problems were coming from the use of Trasylol. The thing is that the patients had no idea that they were given the drug because no one ever told them. The manufacturers of Trasylol, Bayer Pharmaceuticals did their own study linking the drug to the negative side effects but never told anyone. The FDA took Trasylol off the market in November of 2007, however Bayer knew about the adverse side effects years before thus causing thousands of deaths.
If you or a loved one has suffered from any of the possible harmful effects of Trasylol, such as kidney problems, heart attack or stroke, you may be entitled to file a legal claim against the drugs manufacturer.
Acute Kidney Failure, also known as renal failure, entails the abrupt loss of the use of the kidneys to excrete waste and urine. Some of the causes of acute kidney failure are infections of the kidney, obstruction of the kidney track, decreased blood flow, and other disorders that cause clotting within the kidneys blood vessels. Symptoms of acute kidney failure include either a stoppage of urine or an increased amount of urine, swelling, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and abrupt changes in mood. Once you are diagnosed with acute kidney failure, the amount of liquid you consume must be monitored and in most cases severely limited to the amount of urine that you are comfortably able to produce. In recent years, many cases of acute kidney failure have been linked to the drug Trasylol.
Trasylol, manufactured by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, was predominantly used in open heart surgeries to control the amount of blood. Controlling the amount of blood in an open heart surgery is crucial because a bloodless heart is needed to be able for the doctors to be able to perform the surgery. Also, in an open heart surgery blood and oxygen is also supplied to the lungs and brain so that the body is able to function properly. You may be wondering why I am talking about open heart surgeries and acute kidney failure in the same sentence. It is because when blood needs to be controlled during an open heart surgery, it is done by the use of a drug. The most commonly used drug to do this in the past decade was Trasylol. Trasylol has been linked to cause acute kidney failure when used in an open heart surgery. Trasylol has contributed to over 20,000 deaths due to acute kidney failure resulting in death.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals even had the ability to come public with their defective drug after they did their own study on the side effects. This study revealed that Trasylol did indeed cause acute kidney failure, however Bayer decided not to release their findings. Because Bayer did not tell the FDA about the negative side effects of Trasylol, thousands of people continued to die because of acute kidney failure. Trasylol was taken off the market over two years after Bayer had found out about Trasylol causing acute kidney failure. Bayer’s decisions have affected the lives of thousands for the worse, in which their actions should be justified. Many patients who had been suffering from acute kidney failure had no basis for where is had come from because doctors as well as the general public did not know about Trasylol’s damage to kidneys.
If you or a loved one has been harmed by Trasylol from forming acute kidney failure, contact a Trasylol attorney today. Trasylol attorney’s have dedicated teams dealing with this issue and are willing to discuss you case with you. It is important to contact a Trasylol attorney as soon as possible for their may be time limitations to when you can file a Trasylol lawsuit.
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