Acute kidney injury in critically-ill adult patients with seasonal influenza infection.

CONCLUSIONS: Influenza-related critical illness is rare but can cause AKI in a large proportion of affected patients. In this setting, requirement for renal replacement therapy could be associated with increased mortality risk.
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PMID: 28669380 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Nephrology - July 2, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Dovč A, Premru V, Pečavar B, Ponikvar R Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research