In 2019, an average of around 2.1 million Austrian inhabitants came from a migration background. Due to the changing demographic due to migration over the last few decades, more and more children are growing up multilingual. Many of them display problems in learning their second language (German) and are often diagnosed as having a suspected […]
Indirect effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the kidneys: beware of the genetic background
SARS-CoV-2-associated acute kidney injury is not uncommon. Many hospitalized COVID-19 patients—as many as 80% of critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to a current study—develop acute kidney injury, but without requiring dialysis in most cases. Proteinuria and hematuria are present in about half the cases. Examinations of renal tissue from deceased patients show injury to the […]