Management of earthquake-related acute renal injury

Figure 1  Fikri M Abu-Zidan, MD, FACS, FRCS, PhD, Dip Applied Statistics, Professor of Disaster Medicine, Consultant of Statistics and Research Methodology, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain 17666, United Arab Emirates. Fikri M Abu-Zidan, Statistical and Research Methodology Consultant, The World Society of Emergency Surgery, Bologna, Via Cracovia 23, Italy.

Figure 2  Kamal Idris, Senior Consultant of Critical Care, Chair, Department of Critical Care, The Intensive Care Unit, Burjeel Royal Hospital, Al-Ain 67006, United Arab Emirates.

Figure 3  Arif Alper Cevik, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain 17666, United Arab Emirates.

Figure 4 The pathophysiology and mechanisms of the crush syndrome, rhabdomyolysis, and acute kidney injuries[24]. Citation: Abu-Zidan FM, Idris K, Cevik AA. Prehospital management of earthquake crush injuries: A collective review. Turk J Emerg Med 2023; 23: 199-210. Copyright ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Wolters Kluwer (Supplementary material).

Figure 5 Histopathological findings of myoglobin casts (yellow arrows) of the renal tubules[31]. A: These casts are granular eosinophilic pigment casts on haematoxylin and eosin staining; B: They are weakly positive on Periodic acid–Schiff staining; C: Bright red on Masson trichrome staining; D: Immunohistochemistry for myoglobin confirmed the diagnosis. Note the normal glomeruli and the diffuse flattening of tubular epithelial cells. Citation: Islam SMJ, Karim I, Yasmin S. Myoglobin Cast Nephropathy, A Series of Five Cases. American J Pathol Res 2023; 2: 1-4. Copyright ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by SciVision Publishers LLC (Supplementary material).