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SUBMITTER: Askenazi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5040467 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Askenazi David D Saeidi Behtash B Koralkar Rajesh R Ambalavanan Namasivayam N Griffin Russell L RL
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 20151116 5
<h4>Background</h4>During the first postnatal weeks, infants have abrupt changes in fluid weight that alter serum creatinine (SCr) concentration, and possibly, the evaluation for acute kidney injury (AKI).<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a prospective study on 122 premature infants to determine how fluid adjustment (FA) to SCr alters the incidence of AKI, demographics, outcomes, and performance of candidate urine biomarkers. FA-SCr values were estimated using changes in total body water (TBW) from b ...[more]