The long-term outcome after acute kidney injury: a narrative review

This review will focus on long-term outcomes after acute kidney injury (AKI). Surviving AKI patients have a higher late mortality compared with those admitted without AKI. Recent studies have claimed that long-term mortality in patients after AKI varied from 15% to 74% and older age, presence of pre...

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Main Authors: Luana Pôncio, Andre Luis Balbi, Érica Pires da Rocha, Dayana Bitencourt Dias, Daniela Ponce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia 2015-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-28002015000100115&lng=en&tlng=en