Defining and classifying AKI: one set of criteria
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Defining and classifying AKI: one set of criteria.
Over the last several years there have been consistent calls for a consensus definition and classification system for the syndrome now known as acute kidney injury (AKI) [1,2]. The major aim of such a system, it was argued, would be to bring this major intensive care syndrome to a standard of definition and a level of classification similar to that achieved by other common ICU syndromes (e.g. s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn012