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01-12-2019 | Kidney Injury | Letter
Hyperchloremia-associated acute chronic kidney injury: beware of confounders!
Authors:
Patrick M. Honore, David De Bels, Luc Kugener, Sebastien Redant, Rachid Attou, Andrea Gallerani, Herbert D. Spapen
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2019
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Excerpt
We read with great interest the recent paper by Oh et al. [
1] investigating the association between perioperative hyperchloremia and postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in a large population of postsurgical patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). One of the conclusions was that a substantial perioperative increase in serum chloride levels may reflect a higher risk of AKI in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) [
1]. …