INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury is associated with a poor prognosis in acute liver failure but little is known of outcomes in patients undergoing transplantation for acute liver failure who require renal replacement therapy. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the United Kingdom Transplant Registry was performed (1 January 2001-31 December 2011) with patient and graft survival determined usi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study examined age-specific incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy attributed to analgesic nephropathy from 1971 through 2005 and adjusted comorbidity prevalence and survival of patients who had analgesic nephropathy and were on renal replacement therapy (compared with control subjects without diabetes). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMEN...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To study the clinical course of children requiring continuous renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery and to analyze factors associated with mortality. METHODS A prospective observational study was performed that included children requiring continuous renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to det...

The treatment of established acute kidney injury (AKI) is largely supportive in nature. Renal replacement therapy remains the cornerstone of management for the minority of patients who have severe AKI. Optimization of renal replacement therapy may modulate the high mortality associated with AKI. Recent trials indicated that continuous renal replacement therapy does not confer a survival advanta...

BACKGROUND There are limited data on the outcomes of elderly patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing renal replacement therapy or conservative management. AIMS We aimed to compare survival, hospital admissions and palliative care access of patients aged over 70 years with chronic kidney disease stage 5 according to whether they chose renal replacement therapy or conservative managemen...