You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
Letters
The new definition of acute kidney injury in patients with cirrhosis: a critical look
  1. Carlos Noronha Ferreira1,
  2. Teresa Rodrigues2,
  3. Helena Cortez-Pinto1,
  4. Fátima Serejo1,
  5. Fernando Ramalho1,
  6. Paula Alexandrino1,
  7. José Velosa1
  1. 1Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal
  2. 2Laboratório de Biomatemática, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
  1. Correspondence to Dr Carlos Noronha Ferreira, Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-035, Lisboa, Portugal; carlosnferreira{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2011-301951

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    In the paper ‘Working Party proposal for a revised classification system of renal dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis’ Florence Wong and co-authors have attempted to improve the definition of renal dysfunction in liver cirrhosis.1 The Working Party Statement (WPS) defines acute kidney injury as all causes of acute deterioration of renal function as indicated by an increase in serum creatinine (SeCr) of >50% from baseline or a rise in SeCr of ≥0.3 mg/dl in <48 h.1

    We aimed at analysing and comparing the incidence and clinical significance of acute renal dysfunction (ARD) at hospital admission defined by the WPS and the conventional cut-off value of …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent This was a retrospective analysis of data which did not involve any deviation from standards of treatment.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.