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SUBMITTER: Sousa ALB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6993395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sousa Andre Luis Bastos ALB de Souza Leticia Mascarenhas LM Santana Filho Osvaldino Vieira OV E Léda Victor Hugo Ferreira VHF Rocha Paulo Novis PN
BMC nephrology 20200130 1
<h4>Background</h4>Given the aging of the population, nephrologists are ever more frequently assisting nonagenarians with acute kidney injury (AKI). The management of these patients presents unique characteristics, including bioethical dilemmas, such as the utilization of renal replacement therapy (RRT) at this extreme age.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a tertiary hospital. Over a 10-year period, 832 nonagenarians were hospitalized for two or more days. A random sam ...[more]