The inexorable rise of AKI: Can we bend the growth curve?

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-5

  Siew, Edward D ^a   Himmelfarb, Jonathan ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS;

EID: 84871852529     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2012111115     Document Type: Editorial

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