[ConservativeMind]

Key finding: Lower blood levels of magnesium was an important risk factor for acute kidney damage from cisplatin.

The acute kidney injury risk was up to 20X worse with such factors.

The website the cisplatin kidney risk calculator will be available is MDCalc.com.

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[ComputerGuy]

My kidneys are barely hanging on. I had cisplatin in 2013.

[Bon of Babble]

Very interesting and we didn’t know this - weren’t told this.

My husband had two rounds of cisplatin for bile duct cancer - not too much later, I rushed him to the ER where the doctors told me he was in complete kidney failure. Fortunately, his kidneys recovered (we were told) - but by then, the bile duct cancer was too far advanced and he succumbed.

[fidelis]

This is what happened to me. After my first round of chemo, I went into almost complete kidney failure and almost died. My wife got me right to ER and into ICU where they saved my life after a couple of rounds of dialysis. Now my kidney is completely functional, but it was pretty scary at the time, and I had to have rehab and PT just because of the extended hospital stay. My oncologist tells me the bad reaction I had was due to an uncommon genetic predisposition to react against that part of the treatment. I wonder if that is a factor in the above study.