Septic acute kidney injury: hemodynamic syndrome, inflammatory disorder, or both?
Septic acute kidney injury (S-AKI) is the most common cause of kidney injury in the ICU. Decreased renal blood flow and inflammation have both been suggested as mechanisms of S-AKI. Benes and colleagues present a study of S-AKI in which sepsis is induced by fecal peritonitis and bacterial infusion....
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Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3388644/ |