... MacLeod AM: Acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy: incidence andoutcome QJM 2002, 95:579-583 Silvester W, Bellomo R, Cole L: Epidemiology, management, andoutcomeof severe acute ... Ronco C, Bellomo R: Out of hospital outcomeand quality of life in survivors of combined acute multiple organ and renal failure treated with continuous venovenous hemofiltration/hemodiafiltration ... consumption of considerable health resources [10,13,33,34] Table Crude and age, sex, comorbidity and severity of illness-adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for the association ofacute kidney...
... incidence andoutcome for early acutekidneyinjury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units Crit Care 2007, 11:R68 Bagshaw SM, George C, Bellomo R: Early acutekidneyinjuryand sepsis: ... Cause Cases ofacutekidney injury/ number of animals (%) Acute tubular necrosis (%) Carraway and colleagues [17] Heat-shocked Escherichia coli and live E coli 6/6 (100) (0) Coalson and colleagues ... 20 (50)a aRenal biopsy was only performed in 40 patients (37% of the acutekidneyinjury (AKI) cohort, 12% of the total cohort) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol...
... spectrum of AKI is broad and includes different degrees of severity We used the definition of AKI proposed by the AcuteKidneyInjury Network (AKIN) that was formed to facilitate the development and ... execution of initiatives to ensure the best outcomes for patients with AKI [7] As an initial step the AKIN group proposed the term acutekidneyinjury to reflect the entire spectrum ofacute renal ... initial step the AKIN group proposed the term acutekidneyinjury to reflect the entire spectrum ofacute renal failure and developed interim diagnostic and staging criteria for AKI The diagnostic...
... Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Investigators: Timing of renal replacement therapy and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with severe acutekidneyinjury ... AcuteKidneyInjury Network (AKIN): report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acutekidneyinjury Critical Care 2007, 11:R31 Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, Zimmermann JE: Prognosis in acute ... (range) Mean (SD) Mechanical ventilation Mortality * excluding acutekidneyinjury AKI = acutekidney injury; APACHE = acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score; Hb = haemoglobin; ICU...
... culprit in both his acutekidneyinjuryand pancreatitis Conclusion AAS use and misuse is being seen in an expanding population of patients because they are readily available and often perceived ... clinical jaundice [7] In this paper, we present a case of pancreatitis, cholestasis of the liver andacutekidneyinjury associated with the use of methandrostenolone for aesthetic purposes in a 50-year-old, ... Rosenfeld et al.: Cholestatic jaundice, acutekidneyinjuryandacute pancreatitis secondary to the recreational use of methandrostenolone: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:138...
... completely and stopped entirely, following months of treatment At 8-month follow-up, the patient's creatinine was 0.8 mg/dl and there was no proteinuria Discussion Oliguric acutekidneyinjury occurs ... changes in hematocrit (A) and creatinine levels (B) of the patient Therapy scheme and resultant changes in hematocrit (A) and creatinine levels (B) of the patient Hemodialysis and erythropoietin treatments ... Vijayan A: Use of EPO in critically ill patients with acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy Am J Kidney Dis 2005, 46(5):791-798 Abbreviations ARF: acutekidney injury; MCD: minimal...
... ofand grading of the severity of MOF [22] For this study we used SOFA scoring [23] The use of the daily SOFA score has been challenged, because daily evaluation can lead to underestimation of ... admittances because of ACF andof patients who had pulmonary artery catheters were identified from our clinical information management system (Clinisoft; Datex-Ohmeda, Helsinki, Finland) and from patient ... study, and still both groups were treated to the same level of filling pressures Other studies have shown that the amount of fluids and blood infused is a surrogate marker of the severity of illness...
... mortality of patients with acute renal failure: what the analysis of two databases does and does not tell us J Am Soc Nephrol 2006, 17:923-925 Dejavaran P: Emerging biomarkers ofacutekidneyinjury ... Shah SV, Molitoris BA, Ronco C, Warnock DG, Levin A: AcuteKidneyInjury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acutekidneyinjury Crit Care 2007, 11:R31 ... serum creatinine and urine output Emerging biomarkers of AKI, such as neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalcin and cystatin C, give us a view of the biological clock, and the use of commercially...
... recovery of renal function and adversely impact patient survival [30] Several studies over the past decade have evaluated the impact of timing of initiation of CRRT on outcomes of AKI In the first of ... acutekidneyinjuryof the critically ill patient Nat Clin Pract Nephrol 2007, 3:118-119 22 Himmelfarb J: Continuous dialysis is not superior to intermittent dialysis in acutekidneyinjuryof ... continuous hemofiltration increases survival in patients with acute renal failure Kidney Int 2006, 70:1312-1317 Schiffl H, Lang SM, Fischer R: Daily hemodialysis and the outcomeofacute renal...
... the incidence andoutcome for early acutekidneyinjury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units Crit Care 2007, 11:R68 Hoste EA, Schurgers M: Epidemiologyofacutekidney injury: how big ... Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Investigators: Timing of renal replacement therapy and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with severe acutekidneyinjury ... goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1368-1377 Bagshaw SM, George C, Bellomo R: Early acutekidneyinjuryand sepsis: a multicentre evaluation...
... Prospective Hospital Renal Outcome Survey on AcuteKidneyInjury (NEiPHROS-AKI) Investigators North East Italian Prospective Hospital Renal Outcome Survey on AcuteKidneyInjury (NEiPHROS-AKI): targeting ... Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (B.E.S.T Kidney) Investigators Writing Committee Patient andkidney survival by dialysis modality in critically ill patients with acutekidneyinjury ... conception and design, patient enrollment, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and critical revision of the manuscript DNC participated in patient enrollment, acquisition of data,...
... known risk factor for AKI, Table Baseline characteristics of patients with and without acutekidneyinjury No acutekidneyinjuryAcutekidneyinjury P value Number 21 18 Age (years)* 2.1 ± ± 5.2 ... hypothesized that IL-6 and IL-8 would be early biomarkers ofacutekidneyinjury In animals, we and others demonstrated that AKI causes lung injury, characterized by neutrophil infiltration and increased ... IL-6 levels andacutekidneyinjury was detected (P = 0.06) An interaction was not detected between IL-8 levels andacutekidneyinjury (P = 0.83) We therefore stratified the analysis of IL-6 levels...
... Incidence and outcomes in acutekidney injury: a comprehensive population-based study J Am Soc Nephrol 2007, 18:1292-1298 Ricci Z, Cruz D, Ronco C: The RIFLE criteria and mortality in acutekidney injury: ... determination of AKI severity in critically-ill patients Page of Abbreviations AKI: acutekidney injury; AKIN: AcuteKidneyInjury Network; CKD: chronic kidney disease; GFR: glomerular filtration rate; IQR: ... risk of in-hospital death [25] Additionally, several studies have now shown that the change in severity stage of AKI (acute kidneyinjury network (AKIN) or risk, injury, failure, loss of kidney...
... A: AcuteKidneyInjury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acutekidneyinjury Crit Care 2007, 11:R31 Pickering JW, Frampton CM, Endre ZH: Evaluation of trial outcomes in acute ... study and the concept of measuring uCysC and participated in the study design, interpretation of results, and revision of the draft Acknowledgements We thank the staff of the ICUs of Dunedin and ... affect the outcomeofacutekidneyinjury (the EARLYARF trial) Kidney Int 2010, 77:1020-1030 Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry [http:// www.anzctr.org.au] Erlandsen EJ, Randers E,...
... damage the kidney A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials was performed to test this hypothesis Hyperoncotic albumin decreased the odds ofacutekidneyinjury by 76% andof death by ... Hyperoncotic colloids andacutekidney injury: a meta-analysis of randomized trials Critical Care 2010 14: R191 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: Convenient ... hydroxyethyl starch increased the odds ofacutekidneyinjury by 92% andof death by 41% Hyperoncotic colloids per se not appear to be harmful to the kidney Renal effects may be specific to...
... Molitoris BA, Ronco C, Warnock DG, Levin A, AcuteKidneyInjury Network: AcuteKidneyInjury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acutekidneyinjury Crit Care 2007, 11: R31 Levey ... be addressed for accurate recognition and staging of AKI Abbreviations AKI: acutekidney injury; ADQI: Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative; AKIN: AcuteKidneyInjury Network; AUC: areas under the ... Fernandes P, Jorge S, Gonçalves S, Alvarez A, Costa e Silva Z, França C, Prata MM: Acutekidneyinjury in intensive care unit patients: a comparison between the RIFLE and the AcuteKidney Injury...
... Summary of search strategy Detailed summary of search terms and strategy used for systematic literature search Abbreviations AKI: acutekidney injury; AKIN: AcuteKidneyInjury Network; APACHE II: Acute ... survivors ofacutekidneyinjury requiring dialysis JAMA 2009, 302:1179-1185 48 Bagshaw SM, George C, Bellomo R: Changes in the incidence andoutcome for early acutekidneyinjury in a cohort of Australian ... (CVVHDF), and intermittent hemodialysis (IHD)) The primary outcome measure was mortality Secondary outcomes included: kidney recovery and/ or dialysis independence, duration of RRT and ICU length of...
... early stage injury: 25% decrease in GFR and an increase in SCr by a factor of 1.5; (2) acutekidneyinjury (AKI): 50% decrease in GFR and increase in SCr by a factor of either or 3; (3) acute renal ... similarly capable of blunting the extent ofinjury Altogether, these results indicate the development of novel and exciting platform for the future study and management of renal injury Simon J Atkinson, ... TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables xvi List of Figures xvii I Introduction A Acutekidneyinjury 1 The growing prevelance of renal injury...
... over six years and to examine the characteristics, presentation, underlying risk factors, outcomeof patients and to highlight the possible causesof delaying diagnosis Materials and methods Here ... morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis is the source of major medical and social problems, especially in developing countries It is ranked as the seventh highest cause of morbidity worldwide, and ... important to develop and utilize novel, more sensitive and specific tests Considering the serious impact of missed or delayed diagnoses and the risk of transmission to health care professionals, clinicians...