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Acute Kidney Injury: Definitions, Incidence, Diagnosis, and Outcome

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Surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensivists, radiologists, interventional cardiologists, and nephrologists, among others, are keenly interested in preserving renal function in patients undergoing surgical interventions or other procedures, as well as in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The well-known strong association between acute kidney injury (AKI) and its sequel, chronic kidney disease (CKD) with mortality and with severe cardiac and other organ morbidity [1–5], makes practitioners even more mindful of kidney function in these patients. No effective new therapy for AKI has been introduced so far; thus better avenues for progress may be novel diagnostic tests and a clearer understanding of the factors associated with the development of AKI in both surgical and critically ill patients and how to prevent it.

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Dillon, F.X., Camporesi, E.M. (2016). Acute Kidney Injury: Definitions, Incidence, Diagnosis, and Outcome. In: Landoni, G., Pisano, A., Zangrillo, A., Bellomo, R. (eds) Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33429-5_2

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