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Published in: Critical Care 1/2013

01-02-2013 | Letter

Renal replacement therapy: is it effective in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury?

Authors: Helmut Schiffl, Susanne M Lang

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2013

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Clinicians caring for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) face two critical questions on reading the article by Clec'h and colleagues [1]: can it be true that renal replacement therapy (RRT) lacks efficacy in these patients; and, if so, should current practice be changed? Regrettably, the authors provided no compelling hypothesis for why RRT did not reduce in-hospital mortality. …
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Clec'h C, Darmon M, Lautrette A, Chemouni F, Azoulay E, Schwebel C, Dumenil AS, Goldgran-Toledano D, Cohen Y, Timsit J-F: Efficacy of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients: a propensity analysis. Crit Care 2012, 16: R236. 10.1186/cc11905PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
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Schiffl H, Lang SM, Fischer R: Daily hemodialysis and the outcome of acute renal failure. N Engl J Med 2002, 346: 305-310. 10.1056/NEJMoa010877CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Renal replacement therapy: is it effective in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury?
Authors
Helmut Schiffl
Susanne M Lang
Publication date
01-02-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11928

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