Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnętrznej
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Pol. Arch. Med. Wewn. · Dec 2020
ReviewAcute kidney injury, its definition, and treatment in adults: guidelines and reality.
In the last decades, a lot of research has been done to improve our understanding of acute kidney injury (AKI) as well to standardize its diagnostic criteria. As a result of many years of work of intensivists and nephrologists, consensus definitions were established, finally unified in 2012 by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) group. ⋯ The present review covers issues discussed during the KDIGO controversy conference, devoted to AKI. Here, we attempted to answer 3 main questions: Is the KDIGO definition of AKI valuable in clinical research and global epidemiology? Is it helpful in everyday clinical practice? Is it useful in the treatment of critically ill patients with AKI?