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https://read.qxmd.com/read/18492867/intensity-of-renal-support-in-critically-ill-patients-with-acute-kidney-injury
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Paul M Palevsky, Jane Hongyuan Zhang, Theresa Z O'Connor, Glenn M Chertow, Susan T Crowley, Devasmita Choudhury, Kevin Finkel, John A Kellum, Emil Paganini, Roland M H Schein, Mark W Smith, Kathleen M Swanson, B Taylor Thompson, Anitha Vijayan, Suzanne Watnick, Robert A Star, Peter Peduzzi
BACKGROUND: The optimal intensity of renal-replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury is controversial. METHODS: We randomly assigned critically ill patients with acute kidney injury and failure of at least one nonrenal organ or sepsis to receive intensive or less intensive renal-replacement therapy. The primary end point was death from any cause by day 60. In both study groups, hemodynamically stable patients underwent intermittent hemodialysis, and hemodynamically unstable patients underwent continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration or sustained low-efficiency dialysis...
July 3, 2008: New England Journal of Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22287700/medical-management-of-hepatorenal-syndrome
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Andrew Davenport, Jawad Ahmad, Ali Al-Khafaji, John A Kellum, Yuri S Genyk, Mitra K Nadim
Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is defined as the occurrence of renal dysfunction in a patient with end-stage liver cirrhosis in the absence of another identifiable cause of renal failure. The prognosis of HRS remains poor, with a median survival without liver transplantation of <6 months. However, understanding the pathogenesis of HRS has led to the introduction of treatments designed to increase renal perfusion and mean arterial blood pressure using vasopressors and albumin, which has led to improvement in renal function in ∼50% of patients...
January 2012: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17890258/hepatorenal-syndrome-current-diagnostic-and-therapeutic-concepts
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Michael Schepke
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September 2007: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation
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