Acute kidney ... acronym RIFLE to AKIN stages 1, 2, and 3; to omit the GFR criteria and the outcomes 'Loss' and 'End-stage'; to require a 48 h window where abrupt changes in kidney function ...

More than 30 different definitions of 'acute kidney injury' (AKI) appear in the published literature. The use of different definitions in different studies makes it virtually impossible to analyze ...

This Acute Kidney Injury Network has proposed uniform standards for diagnosing and classifying AKI. These proposed standards will need to be validated in future studies, a process that will be ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(5):657-667. Risk Increase in sCr ≥1.5× baseline or decrease in GFR ≥25% <0.5 ml/kg/h for ≥6 h Injury Increase in sCr ≥2.0× baseline or decrease in GFR ...