Incidence and outcomes of acute kidney injury in extremely-low-birth-weight infants

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 12; no. 11; p. e0187764
• Main Authors: Lee, Chien-Chung, Chan, Oi-Wa, Lai, Mei-Yin, Hsu, Kai-Hsiang, Wu, Tai-Wei, Lim, Wai-Ho, Wang, Yu-Cheng, Lien, Reyin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.11.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acute kidney failure; Acute Kidney Injury - epidemiology; Acute Kidney Injury - pathology; Age; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Birth; Birth weight; Confidence intervals; Congenital diseases; Coronary vessels; Creatinine; Datum (elevation); Gestational age; Health aspects; Hospitals; Humans; Incidence; Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Newborn, Diseases - epidemiology; Infant, Newborn, Diseases - pathology; Infants; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Kidney diseases; Kidneys; Low birth weight; Medical prognosis; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mortality; Neonates; Nephrology; Newborn babies; Newborn infants; Pediatrics; People and Places; Pre-eclampsia; Preeclampsia; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Prognosis; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Rodents; Survival; Ventilation; Ventilators; Taiwan

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common event in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), especially in extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants. This cohort study investigated the incidence of and risk factors for AKI in ELBW infants and their overall survival at the postmenstrual age (PMA) of 36 we...