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Acute Kidney Injury: Principles of Management

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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by rapid decline in renal function with accumulation of nitrogenous waste and inability of kidney to maintain fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. The term acute renal failure had been replaced by AKI since it represents renal dysfunction as a continuum rather than a discrete finding of failed function. The manifestations of AKI are wide, ranging from minimal elevation of serum creatinine to anuric renal failure. AKI can occur in variety of clinical settings and is associated with several short- and long-term morbidities and increased mortality.

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, ICMR Center for Advanced Research in Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Jitendra Meena & Arvind Bagga

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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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Meena, J., Bagga, A. (2019). Acute Kidney Injury: Principles of Management. 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_3

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