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01-02-2012 | Poster presentation
Exposure to intermittent hemodialysis and renal recovery after acute kidney injury: a systematic review
Authors:
A Schneider, M Bagshaw, NJ Glassford, R Bellomo
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Renal replacement therapy (RRT) in critically ill patients can be applied in a continuous (CRRT) or intermittent (IRRT) fashion. To date, there is no systematic comparison on the impact of these two modalities on renal recovery after an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI). We sought to compare the rates of renal recovery with RRT independence between CRRT and IRRT as an initial modality for RRT in AKI. …