mesoamerican nephropathy

Mesoamerican Mysteries: CKD Among Brickmaking Workers in Nicaragua

July 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing problem worldwide, and as highlighted in NephMadness 2016, there is a relatively new form of CKD of nontraditional etiology in Central America, a nephropathy called mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN). In the [read more...]

AKI Biomarkers in Nicaraguan Sugarcane Workers

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Mesoamerican Nephropathy is a CKD epidemic in Central America affecting predominantly outdoor agricultural workers. The pattern of injury is a chronic tubulo-interstitial nephropathy with a variety of etiologic mechanisms proposed (see recent Test [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Mesoamerican Nephropathy

November 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

AJKD recently published a Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) focusing on the theory of heat stress and exercise-induced uric acid crystalluria as mechanisms of injury. MeN is a chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy with a variety of [read more...]

Three Epidemics Across 10,000 Miles: Can We Connect the Dots?

October 28, 2013 // 0 Comments

Invited commentary by Dr. Veeraish Chauhan Recently, the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism organization, published an article on Mesoamerican Nephropathy (sometimes referred to as chronic kidney disease of undetermined [read more...]