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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(3):820-826; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn044
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Kidney diseases beyond nephrology: intensive care

Zaccaria Ricci1 and Claudio Ronco2

1 Department of Pediatric Cardiosurgery, Staff Anesthesiologist, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome 2 Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Head, S.Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

Zaccaria Ricci, Piazza S. Onofrio 400100, Rome, Italy. Tel: +39-0644-56115; Fax: +39-0444-993949. E-mail: z.ricci@libero.it

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   From renal failure to kidney injury
 
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex disorder that occurs in a variety of settings with clinical manifestations ranging from a minimal elevation in serum creatinine to anuric renal failure [1]. It is often under-recognized and associated with severe consequences. Recent epidemiological studies demonstrate the wide variation in aetiologies and risk factors and describe the increased mortality associated with this disease (particularly when dialysis is required) [1–2]. AKI is currently recognized as the preferred nomenclature for the clinical disorder formerly called acute renal failure (ARF). This transition in terminology served to emphasize that the spectrum of disease is much broader than the subset of patients who experience kidney failure requiring dialysis support [3]. This new nomenclature underscores the fact that AKI exists along a continuum, recognizing that an acute decline in kidney function is often secondary to an injury that causes functional and/or structural . . . [Full Text of this Article]



   Normotensive ischaemic ARF
 


   RIFLE in the general ICU
 


   Markers and biomarkers of AKI
 


   AKI outcomes in the last 10 years
 


   Fluid resuscitation: effects on outcome
 


   Continuous renal replacement therapy: effects on outcome
 

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