TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wong, Florence
PY  - 2017
TI  - Renal dysfunction in cirrhosis, does the baseline renal function matter?
JF  - AME Medical Journal; Vol 2 (July 2017): Ame Medical Journal
Y2  - 2017
KW  - 
N2  - Acute renal dysfunction is a common complication of liver cirrhosis, previously thought to occur in 20% of all cirrhotic patients admitted into hospital (1), diagnosed when the serum creatinine (sCr) acutely increases by 50% to a final value ≥1.5 mg/dL (133 µmol/L). However, with the recognition that small changes in renal function can also affect patient outcomes in both cirrhotic (2) and non-cirrhotic   populations (3), the International Ascites Club recently changed the definition of renal dysfunction in cirrhosis, clearly setting out what should be regarded as acute versus chronic renal dysfunction (4), so to make the definitions more relevant in daily clinical practice.
UR  - https://amj.amegroups.org/article/view/3947