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Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Prevalence, Predictors, and In-Hospital Mortality at a District Hospital in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most severe complications of cirrhosis and portends an ominous prognosis with an estimated mortality of about 50% in a month and 65% within a year. Infection and hypovolemia have been found to be the main precipitating factors of AKI in liver cirrh...
Autores principales: | Duah, Amoako, Duah, Francisca, Ampofo-Boobi, Daniel, Addo, Bright Peprah, Osei-Poku, Foster, Agyei-Nkansah, Adwoa |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8885249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35237687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4589767 |
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