Isabella Guzzo, Lara de Galasso, Aysun Karabay Bayazit, Dincer Yildizdas, Claus Peter Schmitt, Wesley Hayes, Rukshana Shroff, Augustina Jankauskiene, Ernestas Virsilas, Germana Longo, Enrico Vidal, Sevgi Mir, Ipek Kaplan Bulut, Marcin Tkaczyk, Francesca Mencarelli, Cristina Bertulli, Mrjana Cvetkovic, Mirjana Kostic, Fabio Paglialonga, Giovanni Montini, Ebru Yilmaz, Ana Teixeira, Bahriye Atmis, Franz Schaefer
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI), particularly that requiring dialysis, is a severe complication in hospitalized children that is associated with high morbidity and mortality. A prospective European AKI registry (EurAKId registry, NCT02960867) was created to describe the epidemiology and outcomes of paediatric patients treated with acute dialysis. METHODS: Children were recruited who were between 0 and 18 years of age and were treated both in and outside the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with peritoneal dialysis (PD), haemodialysis (HD) or continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) for AKI or metabolic derangement, fluid overload (FO), sepsis or respiratory distress...
March 25, 2022: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation