COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury.
Crit Care Clin
; 38(3): 473-489, 2022 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2114478
ABSTRACT
Initial reporting suggested that kidney involvement following COVID-19 infection was uncommon but this is now known not to be the case. Acute kidney injury (AKI) may arise through several mechanisms and complicate up to a quarter of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection being associated with an increased risk for both morbidity and death. Mechanisms of injury include direct kidney damage predominantly through tubular injury, although glomerular injury has been reported; the consequences of the treatment of patients with severe hypoxic respiratory failure; secondary infection; and exposure to nephrotoxic drugs. The mainstay of treatment remains the prevention of worsening kidney damage and in some cases they need for renal replacement therapies (RRT). Although the use of other blood purification techniques has been proposed as potential treatments, results to-date have not been definitive.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Acute Kidney Injury
/
COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Crit Care Clin
Journal subject:
Critical Care
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.ccc.2022.01.002
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