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Issues of Acute Kidney Injury Staging and Management in Sepsis and Critical Illness: A Narrative Review

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Acute kidney injury (AKI) has a high incidence on intensive care units around the world and is a major complication in critically ill patients suffering from sepsis or septic shock. The short- and long-term complications are thereby devastating and impair the quality of life. Especially in terms of AKI staging, the determination of kidney function and the timing of dialytic AKI management outside of life-threatening indications are ongoing matters of debate. Despite several studies, a major problem remains in distinguishing between beneficial and unnecessary “early” or even harmful renal replacement therapy (RRT)

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English

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LITERATURE

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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2017, 18, 1387

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