Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia
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Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl · Jan 2012
Hospital-acquired acute kidney injury in critically ill children and adolescents.
This study determined the (1) hospital incidence, prevalence and etiology; (2) frequency of each of the acute kidney injury (AKI) stages and (3) the 60-day outcome. Retrospective analysis of clinico-laboratory data of Nigerian children/adolescents with hospital-acquired acute kidney injury (hAKI) was performed. AKI occurred in 103 (3.13%) of 3,286 childhood and adolescent admissions. ⋯ Scr severity may not be a reliable mortality determinant among AKI patients. The maximal mortality in the first 28 days of hAKI onset and overall high mortality rate indicate that high level of clinical vigilance and informed therapeutic intervention will be critical to survival during this period. Cause of death was multi-factorial.