OBJECTIVE To compare the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-stage Renal Failure) and AKIN (Acute Kidney Injury Network) criteria for diagnosis of acute kidney injury after coronary artery bypass grafting. METHODS Retrospective cohort. 169 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting from January 2007 through December 2008 were analyzed. Information was entered into a databas...

There are limited data on the application of the RIFLE criteria among patients with severe malaria. This retrospective study was conducted by reviewing 257 medical records of adult hospitalized patients with severe falciparum malaria at the Mae Sot General Hospital, Tak province in the northern part of Thailand. The aims of this study were to determine the incidence of acute renal failure (ARF)...

Introduction. The RIFLE classification defines three severity criteria for acute kidney injury (AKI): risk, injury, and failure. It was associated with mortality according to the gradation of AKI severity. However, it is not known if the APACHE II score, associated with the RIFLE classification, results in greater discriminatory power in relation to mortality in critical patients. Objective. To...

Page 1 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) In the consensus RIFLE criteria [1] of acute kidney injury (AKI) the thresholds given for serum creatinine (sCr) increase and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decrease (Table 1) do not correspond [2]. Direct measurement of GFR in clinical practice is difficult, and values are more often estimated (eGFR) by the Cockroft-Gault equation or the Mo...

The incidence of acute renal failure, defined by the risk, injury, or failure criteria of the RIFLE criteria (risk, injury, failure, loss, and end-stage kidney disease), in 66 patients who received colistimethate sodium was 45%, and 21% of patients stopped therapy because of nephrotoxicity. The RIFLE criteria should be used in the future to allow for comparison of nephrotoxicity among studies.

OBJECTIVES Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery is associated with adverse patient outcome. A new definition and staging system for AKI based on creatinine kinetics (CKs) has been proposed recently. Their proponents hypothesize that early absolute increases in serum creatinine (sCr) after kidney injury are superior to percentage increases, especially in patients with chronic kidney d...

Age-and gender-adjusted eGFR to estimate baseline creatinine for RIFLE criteria Sir, In 2004, the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) developed a consensus definition of acute kidney injury (AKI): the risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage kidney disease (RIFLE) criteria [1]. AKI is divided into three classes (risk, injury and failure) based on urine output or a rise in serum creatinine...

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Acute renal failure is common among hospitalized patients with HIV infection, particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting, and increases mortality. Recently, the Acute Dialysis and Quality Initiative (ADQI) group [1] formulated a new classification for acute renal failure the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, and End-stage kidney disease (RIFLE) classification that defines three grades of ...