Publications by authors named "Nayana Fonseca Vaz"
Evolution of diagnostic criteria for acute kidney injury in patients with decompensated cirrhosis: A prospective study in a tertiary university hospital.
Nayana Fonseca Vaz Vanessa Nogueira Rodrigues da Cunha Marlone Cunha-Silva Tiago Sevá-Pereira Jazon Romilson de Souza Almeida
Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol
September 2020
Background: Recently, changes in acute kidney injury (AKI) diagnostic criteria have been proposed (ICA-AKI criteria). However, in Brazil there is a paucity of data and analyses that evaluate AKI in patients with cirrhosis and determine the impact of the implemented AKI criteria changes. Therefore, this study sought to evaluate the incidence of AKI in patients with cirrhosis; to evaluate the agreement between traditional and ICA-AKI criteria; and to assess its clinical and laboratory characteristics, etiologies, risk factors and outcomes.
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