Acute kidney injury in severe trauma assessed by RIFLE criteria: a common feature without implications on mortality?

Acute kidney injury in severe trauma assessed by RIFLE criteria: a common feature without implications on mortality?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been hard to assess due to the lack of standard definitions. Recently, the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-Stage Kidney (RIFLE) classification has been proposed to classify AKI in a number of clinica...

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Main Authors: Costa-Pereira Altamiro, Araújo Rui, Dias Cláudia, Antunes Rui, Gomes Ernestina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-01-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Online Access:http://www.sjtrem.com/content/18/1/1

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