Acute kidney injury without need for dialysis, incidence, its impact on long-term stroke survival and progression to chronic kidney disease

Conclusions We found AKI during stroke admission was associated with increased mortality as compared with those without AKI on univariate analysis. AKI without need of renal replacement therapy was also associated with progression to CKD in this cohort. This suggests that patients with AKI need to have their renal function monitored longitudinally for development of CKD.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Open access, Neurology Source Type: research