Acute kidney injury in cirrhosis
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Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao; Chirag R. Parikh; Antonella Viola
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Acute renal failure (ARF), recently renamed acute kidney injury (AKI), is a relatively frequent problem, occurring in approximately 20% of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis. Although serum creatinine may underestimate the degree of renal dysfunction in cirrhosis, measures to diagnose and treat AK