Altered kidney function on the Acute Medical Unit.

摘要: Reduced kidney function, whether acute or chronic, is a highly significant biomarker of in most clinical settings. This particularly true on the medical take where altered renal function associated with worse prognosis, and may also impact immediate management strategies such as drug choice, dosing suspension, use contrast agents for imaging. In this edition Acute Medical Journal, Yang et al present results their study describing characteristics 2,070 consecutive patients presenting unselected at hospital over 40 day period. study, authors provide wealth information general admitted be it CKD AKI. Importantly, both chronic disease (CKD) injury (AKI) are very prevalent. Indeed, more than 5% all admissions actually demonstrated evidence both.