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Demonstrates that acute kidney injury predicts mortality in very elderly critically ill patients, highlighting the diagnostic importance of creatinine dynamics over urine output.
AKI is a frequent complication in very elderly critically-ill patients. Occurrence of AKI at any stage was associated with increased mortality. Predictive ability applied to AKI defined by creatinine but not urine output. Careful attention of creatinine dynamics is essential in very elderly ICU-patients.
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