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  2. Acute kidney injury - Wikipedia

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    Acute kidney injury was one of the most expensive conditions seen in U.S. hospitals in 2011, with an aggregated cost of nearly $4.7 billion for approximately 498,000 hospital stays. [48] This was a 346% increase in hospitalizations from 1997, when there were 98,000 acute kidney injury stays. [ 49 ]

  3. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    age, grade, extent, size (for tumors) AGN: acute glomerulonephritis: AH: auditory hallucinations: a.h. every other hour (from Latin alternis horis) AHD: arteriosclerotic heart disease: AHF: antihemophilic factor: AHG: antihemophilic globulin: AHH: aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase: AHI: Apnea-Hypopnea Index [1] AHR: airway hyper-reactivity AHT ...

  4. Assessment of kidney function - Wikipedia

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    The functions of the kidney include maintenance of acid-base balance; regulation of fluid balance; regulation of sodium, potassium, and other electrolytes; clearance of toxins; absorption of glucose, amino acids, and other small molecules; regulation of blood pressure; production of various hormones, such as erythropoietin; and activation of vitamin D.

  5. Wikipedia : Osmosis/Acute renal failure

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    Intrarenal acute kidney injury. Acute kidney injury, or AKI, is when the kidney isn’t functioning at 100% and that decrease in function usually over a few days. Actually, AKI used to be known as acute renal failure, or ARF, but AKI is a broader term that also includes subtle decreases in kidney function.

  6. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) : CAD Coronary artery disease

  7. SeaStar Medical Expands NEUTRALIZE-AKI Pivotal Trial Adding ...

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    NEUTRALIZE-AKI Pivotal Trial The NEUTRALIZE-AKI (NEUTRophil and monocyte deActivation via SeLective Cytopheretic Device – a randomIZEd clinical trial in Acute Kidney Injury) pivotal trial is expected to enroll up to 200 adults. The trial’s primary endpoint is a composite of 90-day mortality or dialysis dependency of patients treated with ...

  8. SOFA score - Wikipedia

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    The SOFA scoring system is useful in predicting the clinical outcomes of critically ill patients. [8] According to an observational study at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Belgium, the mortality rate is at least 50% when the score is increased, regardless of initial score, in the first 96 hours of admission, 27% to 35% if the score remains unchanged, and less than 27% if the score is reduced. [9]

  9. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").