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Acute Kidney Injury in the Elderly

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The elderly represent the fastest growing subgroup of the general population in the developed countries. The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is rising in individuals of all ages; however, elderly patients (older than 65 years) are particularly susceptible to the development of AKI due to aging process, the presence of comorbidities, and the reduced ability to recover. Therefore, it is important to dissect and understand in details the pathways of the aging process on normal physiology, the risk factors and etiology of AKI in this group of patients. In this chapter we are reviewing the histologic and physiologic alterations, as well as the risk factors for acute kidney injury in the elderly.

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    Myrto Giannopoulou, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Theodoros Eleftheriadis & Vassilios Liakopoulos

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Giannopoulou, M., Roumeliotis, S., Eleftheriadis, T., Liakopoulos, V. (2019). Acute Kidney Injury in the Elderly. In: Musso, C., Jauregui, J., Macías-Núñez, J., Covic, A. (eds) Clinical Nephrogeriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18711-8_8

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