Evaluation of simple diagnostic parameters in acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients-diagnostic recommendations for non-nephrologists.

ABSTRACT: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is very common in hospitalized patients, affecting patient's mortality and morbidity. Major causes are prerenal AKI and acute tubular necrosis (ATN). Even though a variety of parameters/indices exist, their reliability and practicability are controversial: in fact, there is a need for a simple diagnostic approach for AKI in in-patients with parameters easily obtained in any hospital. The objective of the study was: (1) to assess reliability of simple laboratory parameters/indices to differentiate pre-/intrarenal AKI; (2) to evaluate the most reliable and feasible parameters/indices; and (3) to identify the possible impact of confounding factors. Retrospectively, in-patients with AKI hospitalized in 2020 in a university nephrology department were included. Spot uri

SUBMITTER: Buckenmayer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504189 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature