Actual versus ideal body weight for acute kidney injury diagnosis and classification in critically Ill patients

BACKGROUND: In the current acute kidney injury (AKI) definition, the urine output (UO) criterion does not specify which body weights (BW), i.e. actual (ABW) versus ideal (IBW), should be used to diagnose and stage AKI, leading to heterogeneity across research studies. METHODS: This is a single cente...

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Published in:BMC Nephrol
Main Authors: Thongprayoon, Charat, Cheungpasitporn, Wisit, Akhoundi, Abbasali, Ahmed, Adil H, Kashani, Kianoush B
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236495/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398596
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-15-176
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