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Higher dialysis intensity doesn

Reuters Health • The Doctor's Channel Daily Newscast

1:45  |   Posted on Apr 27, 2010 in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Medical Students, Nephrology, Nurses/NP/PA, Reuters Health • The Doctor's Channel Daily Newscast

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute kidney injury, increasing the intensity of hemodialysis over recommended levels does not reduce mortality or improve renal recovery, according to a meta-analysis. [p 6 c 1 P2]

Acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) is associated with in-hospital mortality rates of up to 60%, authors say in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, published online on April 15. [p 1 P1]

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