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SUBMITTER: Pan HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4794801 | biostudies-other | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pan Heng-Chih HC Chien Yu-Shan YS Jenq Chang-Chyi CC Tsai Ming-Hung MH Fan Pei-Chun PC Chang Chih-Hsiang CH Chang Ming-Yang MY Tian Ya-Chung YC Fang Ji-Tseng JT Yang Chih-Wei CW Chen Yung-Chang YC
Scientific reports 20160317
Critically ill cirrhotic patients have high mortality rates, particularly when they present with acute kidney injury (AKI) on admission. The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) group aimed to standardize the definition of AKI and recently published a new AKI classification. However, the efficacy of the KDIGO classification for predicting outcomes of critically ill cirrhotic patients is unclear. We prospectively enrolled 242 cirrhotic patients from a 10-bed specialized hepatogastroe ...[more]