Acute kidney injury aggravated by treatment initiation with apixaban: Another twist of anticoagulant-related nephropathy

• Main Authors: Sergey V. Brodsky (Author), Nilesh S. Mhaskar (Author), Sampath Thiruveedi (Author), Rajnish Dhingra (Author), Sharon C. Reuben (Author), Edward Calomeni (Author), Iouri Ivanov (Author), Anjali Satoskar (Author), Jessica Hemminger (Author), Gyongyi Nadasdy (Author), Lee Hebert (Author), Brad Rovin (Author), Tibor Nadasdy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Korean Society of Nephrology, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anticoagulant-related nephropathy (ARN) was initially described in patients on warfarin (as warfarin-related nephropathy) and recently in those using dabigatran. Herein, we report clinical history and kidney biopsy findings in a patient on apixaban (Eliquis). Initiation of treatment with apixaban re...