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 ...

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 ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) often occurs as a result of ischemia, which is a condition in which blood flow to part of the body is restricted, depriving tissues of oxygen and nutrients. This damage is ...