Clinico-Etiological Spectrum and Outcome in Patients With Septic Acute Kidney Injury and Its Comparison With Non-septic Acute Kidney Injury: A Hospital-Based Prospective Study Conducted in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India.

Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a heterogenous syndrome defined by the impairment of kidney filtration and excretory function over days to weeks, resulting in the retention of nitrogenous and other waste products normally cleared by the kidneys. In addition, AKI is frequently recognized to be associated with sepsis and contributes to an unfavorable outcome in sepsis. This study was undertaken to study and compare the etiology and clinical profile of patients with septic and non-septic AKI and to study and compare the outcome in both groups.