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Long-Term Outcome of Acute Kidney Injury in Children: A Practical Approach for Follow-up

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Acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill children is common and strongly associated with poor hospital outcomes. The potential importance of AKI as a contributor to poor long-term health in children has only recently been appreciated. Very few children require acute renal replacement therapy for severe AKI. Few healthcare providers would argue that children requiring acute dialysis need follow-up after hospital discharge to ensure that kidney function returns to, and remains, normal. However, a dilemma lies with children who develop non-dialysis-requiring AKI: are they at risk for long-term kidney disease, and if so, how should they be followed and by whom? There are no concrete guidelines on who and how to follow pediatric AKI after hospital discharge; thus, many children with AKI are likely not followed for long-term kidney disease development. Instituting systematic follow-up of pediatric AKI must balance potential benefits (early CKD detection/treatment) with burden to families and healthcare systems. This chapter will briefly summarize the rationale for long-term follow-up of pediatric AKI and briefly review the limited current evidence on pediatric long-term AKI-outcome associations. In the context of an evolving evidence base, this chapter will provide a practical approach to following up children who develop AKI during hospitalization.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Chia Wei Teoh & Michael Zappitelli

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  1. Kidney & Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity Kidney & Urology Institute, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

  2. Department of Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical center and Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  3. Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Mignon McCulloch

  4. Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Timothy E. Bunchman

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Teoh, C.W., Zappitelli, M. (2019). Long-Term Outcome of Acute Kidney Injury in Children: A Practical Approach for Follow-up. In: Sethi, S., Raina, R., McCulloch, M., Bunchman, T. (eds) Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2276-1_28

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