Onco-Nephrology: Kidney Disease in the Cancer Patient

Niloufarsadat Yarandi; Anushree C Shirali

doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2023.03.007

Onco-Nephrology: Kidney Disease in the Cancer Patient

Med Clin North Am. 2023 Jul;107(4):749-762. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2023.03.007. Epub 2023 Apr 19.

Authors

Niloufarsadat Yarandi¹, Anushree C Shirali²

Affiliations

¹ Section of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208029, New Haven, CT 06520-8029, USA.
² Section of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208029, New Haven, CT 06520-8029, USA. Electronic address: anushree.shirali@yale.edu.

PMID: 37258012
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2023.03.007

Abstract

Patients with cancer may develop kidney disease with a variety of different clinical manifestations including acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, proteinuria and electrolyte disturbances. Onco-nephrology is the subspecialty of nephrology that diagnoses and manages kidney disease in patients with cancer. In this article, we review major topics in Onco-Nephrology that may be encountered by the general internist.

Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Chronic kidney disease; Hypokalemia; Hypomagnesemia; Hyponatremia; Immune-checkpoint inhibitors; Onco-nephrology; Proteinuria.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Acute Kidney Injury* / diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury* / etiology
Acute Kidney Injury* / therapy
Humans
Neoplasms* / complications
Neoplasms* / therapy
Nephrology*
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic* / complications
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic* / therapy