Four years on, ICU patients with kidney injury show high mortality and elevated urinary protein

In four years of follow up of 1464 participants in the randomized controlled trial Randomised Evaluation of Normal vs. Augmented Levels of RRT (RENAL) study, medical researchers found that patients with acute kidney injury in an intensive care unit who require renal replacement therapy (RRT; hemodialysis combined with hemofiltration) do not benefit from higher intensity RRT.
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