Clinical and histopathological characteristics of acute kidney injury in a cohort of brain death donors with procurement biopsies

CONCLUSION: Serum creatinine is more suitable than urine output for defining AKI in donors with brain death. There are distinct clinical risk factors for each AKI-ICU phenotype. Donor AKI phenotype does not predict the recipient´s prognosis. Kidney biopsies do not seem to confer any tangible benefit in defining AKI in donors with brain death.PMID:38696077 | DOI:10.1007/s40620-024-01940-9

Source: Journal of Nephrology - May 2, 2024 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Florian G Scurt Angela Ernst Alexandra Korda Carl-Ludwig Fischer-Fr öhlich Anke Schwarz Jan U Becker Christos Chatzikyrkou Source Type: research