Introduction: Understanding Human AKI

A deep frustration for many who care for patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is the lack of development of new therapies that directly limit kidney damage and/or enhance subsequent functional repair. For many years we have been telling patients with AKI that we can use modalities such as dialysis to keep them alive while we wait for the kidneys to undergo repair and regeneration. Unfortunately, in too many cases, that innate repair process is either slow to occur, resulting in prolonged hospital stays, or inadequate to restore kidney function, leading to the need for chronic dialysis.
Source: Seminars in Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research