Towards a definition and classification of acute kidney injury
DG Warnock - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Chertow and colleagues (1) have an interesting and provocative paper in this issue of JASN
that brings a pragmatic approach to bear on the issue of defining acute renal failure. This
area is rapidly gaining prominence and was the theme of one of the American Society of
Nephrology's research focus groups last spring. In that meeting, the terminology “acute
kidney injury”(AKI) was put forth as the preferred nomenclature for the clinical disorder that
we are all familiar with, with the understanding that its spectrum is broader than the subset of …
that brings a pragmatic approach to bear on the issue of defining acute renal failure. This
area is rapidly gaining prominence and was the theme of one of the American Society of
Nephrology's research focus groups last spring. In that meeting, the terminology “acute
kidney injury”(AKI) was put forth as the preferred nomenclature for the clinical disorder that
we are all familiar with, with the understanding that its spectrum is broader than the subset of …