Abstract
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is aclinical syndrome occurring in the context of multiple and diverse disease entities. Although the term AKI implies renal damage as well as functional impairment or acombination of both, diagnosis is solely based on the functional parameters serum creatinine and urine output. Independent of the underlying disease and even assuming full recovery of renal function, AKI is associated with increased morbidity and mortality not only during the acute situation, but also long term. Awareness of the individual risk profile of each patient and the variety of causes and clinical manifestations of AKI is pivotal for prophylaxis, diagnosis, and therapy. The complexity of the clinical syndrome in the context of sepsis, solid organ transplantation, malignancy, and autoimmune diseases requires differentiated diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and interdisciplinary care.
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