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Key points• Microcirculatory impairment is a key pathogenetic mechanism in acute kidney injury associated with severe disease.• CEUS is a "microscope" of the renal microcirculation.• CEUS quantitatively assesses the renal microcirculation to help guide hemodynamic therapy in critical care-related acute kidney injury.• CEUS is challenging but necessary to differentiate regional blood flow within the kidney.• CEUS parameters can be used as sensitive indicators to assess the prognosis of AKI.
Chen et al. (Sat,) studied this question.