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• TITLE: Acute Kidney Injury: Treatment with Unani Medicine—Case Report

  AUTHORS: Muhammad Shakil Ahmad Siddiqui, Khan Usmanghani

  KEYWORDS: Acute Kidney Injury, Diagnosis, Unani Treatment, Outcome

  JOURNAL NAME: Chinese Medicine, Vol.5 No.2, June 27, 2014

  ABSTRACT: A male named Anwer Jamal, age 45 years, married, visited Clinic Rafaheaam Dawakhana Ajmali on March 29, 2013, with history of glomerulonephritis, inherited renal diseases, hypertension and previously hooked on voltaren 50 (Diclofenic Sodium, 50 mg) and was not on dialysis. Different diagnostic parameters showed the patient was suffering from acute renal failure according to the RIFLE criteria. AKI is life threatening when kidneys suddenly is unable to filter waste products from blood. The patient was treated and managed with herbal medicines according to Unani system of medicine. Reversal of the parameter such as serum creatinine from 7.90 mg/dl (6.58 fold high) to 0.81mg/dl within two weeks clearly shows the remarkable recovery in a short period of time. During this period the other related parameters e.g. blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum albumin, albuminuria, blood pressure were also normalized whereas clinical sign and symptom exhibited improvement.