Adv Clin Exp Med
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Observational Study
Mortality of patients with acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients has a deleterious impact on the prognosis, especially when renal replacement therapy (RRT) is required. This issue has not yet been investigated in the intensive care setting in Poland. ⋯ The mortality of critically ill AKI patients requiring RRT was significantly higher than in the overall ICU population. APACHE II scores underestimate mortality, especially in low-risk AKI-RRT subjects, and therefore should not be used in prognostic models in this cohort.