Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasingly recognized in all fields of medical practice.
Unfortunately, this syndrome has been plagued by inconsistent definitions, simplistic …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome characterized by a decrease in renal
function and associated with numerous etiologies and pathophysiological mechanisms. It is …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by an acute decrease in renal function that can be
multifactorial in its origin and is associated with complex pathophysiological mechanisms. In …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common disease in the acutely ill patient population, as a
singular diagnosis or a complication of sepsis, causing significant mortality and morbidity …

Acute kidney injury is a common syndrome associated with increased morbidity and
mortality, but academic advances in this field are hindered by the lack of a universally …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a clinical syndrome that complicates the course and worsens the
outcome in a significant number of hospitalised patients. Recent advances in clinical and …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a clinical syndrome with multiple entities. Although AKI implies
renal damage, functional impairment or both, diagnosis is solely based on the functional …

Clinical practice guidelines are intended to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of
diseases in order to improve both patient outcomes and resource utilization, using evidence …

The introduction of the RIFLE classification has increased the conceptual understanding of
the acute kidney injury (AKI) syndrome, and this classification has been successfully tested …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is widely recognized as an important predictor of morbidity and
mortality and as an antecedent to chronic kidney disease (1). In the past 5 yr, there has been …