Short background: My dad had primary Kidney Cancer and Primary Bladder Cancer. Bladder treated easily, Kidney required a nephrectomy then Pazopanib after Mets to the aorta.
At the end of last month he was diagnosed with Primary Pancreatic Cancer after what they thought were side effects from the Paz - NOT Mets from the kidney, but a new primary cancer in the pancreas. No treatment was forthcoming and the Paz was stopped as his KC would not grow to fatal sizes before the PC succeeded, so for quality of life all treatment has stopped.
He was straight in hospital due to worry over PE, this was ruled out. However his kidneys proved to be a concern.
He already had stage 3 CKD (predating the KC), diabetes and COPD. He was discharged from the renal unit as his kidney function had improved to such a level, that it no longer required monitoring.
On his notes it says he has AKI. I know this stands for Acute Kidney Injury, and that it relates to loss of kidney function in regards to existing or new illness and not a physical injury to the kidney, but am not sure how this differs from CKD? They note he has CKD, but that the AKI is new.
He spent the day in hospital again today, to check his kidney function had improved - it hasn't. The doctor said it would be too invasive to try to find out what has caused it and to basically keep him happy and give him lots of liquids.
What exactly does this mean? Is there no treatment?