Evidence · Research paper
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury, as defined by the new Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes guideline, in very low birth weight infants.
- Acute kidney injury
- Medical
- Metabolic, endocrine and renal
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Neurodevelopmental follow-up
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
This paper is from 2017, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Retrospective single-cohort study of 293 very low birth weight infants assessing the prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of acute kidney injury defined by KDIGO serum creatinine and urine output criteria. AKI was more common in infants under 1000 g and was associated with high mortality. Necrotising enterocolitis was the only independent associated risk factor after adjustment. Surviving affected infants had normal glomerular filtration rate at around one year.
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