Nutritional Support for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury ...

and not just focus on overt failure. In the most generic sense, AKI is an abrupt decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) traditionally measured by rises in serum creatinine. In the extreme, AKI can lead to significant falls in the clearance of solutes resulting in uremia, disturbances in acid-base, electrolytes and fluid bal-ance.

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