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. 2014:2014:365186.
doi: 10.1155/2014/365186. Epub 2014 Aug 12.

Long-term outcomes after dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury

Vin-Cent Wu  1 , Chih-Chung Shiao  2 , Chia-Hsuin Chang  1 , Tao-Min Huang  3 , Chun-Fu Lai  1 , Meng-Chun Lin  1 , Wen-Chih Chiang  1 , Tzong-Shinn Chu  1 , Kwan-Dun Wu  1 , Wen-Je Ko  4 , Cheng-Yi Wang  5 , Shuo-Meng Wang  6 , Likwang Chen  7
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Long-term outcomes after dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury

Vin-Cent Wu et al. Biomed Res Int. 2014.

Abstract

AKI-dialysis patients had a higher incidence of long-term ESRD and mortality than the patients without AKI. The patients who recovered from dialysis were associated with a lower incidence of long-term ESRD and mortality than in the patients who still required dialysis.

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Figure 1
Flow diagram of the study population (AKI, acute kidney injury; DM, diabetes mellitus; ESRD, end-stage renal disease; MV, mechanical ventilation).
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Figure 2
Cox proportional hazard model for long-term dialysis events of the patients alive at hospital discharge, stratified by kidney functional status after discharge (AKI, acute kidney injury).
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Figure 3
Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for overall survival after adjusting for patient characteristics between the dialysis-withdrawal subgroup and the AKI-dialysis and non-AKI groups (AKI, acute kidney injury; CI, confidence interval; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HR, hazard ratio; ICU, intensive care unit).
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