“The tropics” currently account for around 40% of the world’s population and face unique environmental challenges with limited resources, a deficient health system, a rudimentary sanitary infrastructure in addition to a lack of adequate preventive measures and poor surveillance programs. Cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) in the tropics are to a very large driven by infections such as leptospirosis, scrub typhus, dengue, malaria, Ebola virus, yellow fever and human immunodeficiency virus with a pathogenesis driven by volume depletion, hypotension and immune-mediated mechanisms.
Kidney International published a clinical update in Research Highlights on 20 Mar 2026.
The item focuses on Unique aspects of the acute kidney injury associated with infections in the tropics: presentation, challenges and opportunities.
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