Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a condition in which the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to filter waste from the blood. The term AKI has replaced acute renal failure (ARF) to reflect that a decline in kidney function does not necessary lead to organ failure. Ac...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common (especially during critical illness), increasing in incidence, and is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, and End-stage renal disease (RIFLE) classification currently provides a standardized estimate of incidence ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication among critical illnesses. In severe cases, renal replacement therapy (RRT) is required. It has been reported that hospital mortality of the patients who require RRT is more than 60%. Because of the high mortality, it is quite important to ...
Bruce A Molitoris, Vyacheslav Y Melnikov, Mark D Okusa& Jonathan Himmelfarb Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology4,154–165 (2008)Cite this article 2313Accesses 58Citations 3Altmetric Metrics Abstract Early diagnosis has been the 'Achilles heel' of acute kidney injury (AKI) that has prevented succe...
Surgery or Comorbidities: What Is the Primum Movens of Kidney Dysfunction After Nephrectomy? A Multicenter Study in Living Donors and Cancer Patients Background and Hypothesis: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are significant risks for kidney cancer (KC) patients ...
As described previously, ICU patients are prone to present additional comorbidities, such as cardiovascular dysfunction, sepsis, burns, or use of vasopressors, and/or develop complications, such as acute kidney injury (AKI) or, conversely, augmented renal clearance (ARC). Although ARC is expected ...
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Patients with renal hypouricemia can present with hematuria, urolithiasis, or exercise-induced acute kidney in- jury (AKI), and their fractional excretion of urate is much higher than 10% despite a very low level of serum urate. Among different mutations in the SLC22A...