Diagnosis and Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

• Main Authors: Ankana Daga (Author), Fredrick Dapaah-Siakwan (Author), Sharina Rajbhandari (Author), Cassandra Arevalo (Author), Agnes Salvador (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critically ill premature infants. There is a lack of consensus on the diagnostic definition of AKI in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. The primary aim of this study was to determine the incidence and risk factors for AKI in VLBW infants using the AKI netwo...