Abstract
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a common and complex syndrome defined as sudden decline of glomerular filtration rate. It reachs up to 40% of patients in intensive care units (ICU) and is associated with high mortality (about 70% of the cases). There are several risk factors for AKI and the most frequent are advanced age, sepsis, shock, heart failure, liver disease, major surgery, and variou…