Many COVID-19 patients are at risk for acute kidney failure, according to a new study. What to know:
Acute kidney failure -- also called acute kidney injury -- is a serious complication of COVID-19 that's underreported and not well understood, the Northwestern University researchers said."Patients in the hospital with COVID-19, and especially those in the ICU, are at risk for AKI, perhaps as many as 25% to 30%," said lead author Dr. Daniel Batlle, a professor of medicine and a kidney specialist at Northwestern, in Chicago.
For the new study, Batlle and his colleagues reviewed two recent studies from China with details about kidney tissues from patients who died from COVID-19. The type of acute kidney failure in COVID-19 patients is complex and involves several factors not typically seen in an AKI patient in the intensive care unit , according to the Northwestern researchers.
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