Open AccessFacing the Challenge of Drug-Induced Acute Interstitial Nephritis
Author(s) -
Beatriz SánchezÁlamo,
Clara Cases-Corona,
Gema Fernández-Juárez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the nephron journals/nephron journals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 2235-3186
pISSN - 1660-8151
DOI - 10.1159/000525561
Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , interstitial nephritis , nausea , etiology , nephritis , vomiting , drug , renal function , intensive care medicine , kidney , pharmacology
Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) is one of the chief causes of acute kidney injury (AKI). AIN might be produced by drugs, infections, autoimmune diseases, or can be idiopathic. Among these etiologies, drug-induced AIN (DI-AIN) is the dominant one in many countries. Even when DI-AIN is suspected, identification of the putative drug is challenging.