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A 78 year old male attends his GP with 24 h of nausea and anorexia. He is found to have a serum creatinine of 1043 μmol/L and potassium of 6.2 mmol/L. He is admitted as an emergency. He has a history of hypertension and nocturia. His drug therapy consists of Ramipril 2.5 mg daily and tamsulosin 400 mcg daily, which he has been on for 2 years. His BP 134/78 mmHg, his heart rate 72 beats per minute and he has suprapubic tenderness on examination. His urinalysis shows only a trace of proteinuria and no haematuria, his CRP 14 and WCC 9.4.
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Clinical Practice Guideline. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). UK Renal Association; 2019.
Think Kidneys Initiative, NHS England and UK Renal Registry. https://www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk/aki/.
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Fairweather, J., Findlay, M., Isles, C. (2020). Causes of Acute Kidney Injury. In: Clinical Companion in Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38320-6_10
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