Kidney Health Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduates: A Modified Delphi Consensus Statement.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Kidney disease is common in infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Despite the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in infants discharged from the NICU, neither evidence- nor expert-based recommendations exist to guide clinical care after discharge.

Objective

To develop recommendations for risk stratification and kidney health monitoring among infants after discharge from the NICU.

Evidence review

At the National Institute of Health-supported Consensus Workshop to Address Kidney Health in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduates meeting conducted in February 2024, a panel of 51 neonatal nephrology experts focused on 3 at-risk groups: (1) preterm infants, (2) critically ill infants with acute kidney injury (AKI), and (3) infants with crit

SUBMITTER: Starr MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12163980 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature