Sentence examples for urine criterion from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, 'oliguria or anuria' played a significant role as an indication for RRT in our study (45.1% and 36.2% in ED and LD, respectively) (Table 2), but the urine criterion of RIFLE classification was not used in categorizing patients.

In addition to its effect on AKI-associated mortality, the nonuse of the urine criterion may also influence the diagnostic accuracy of new biomarkers for AKI, including neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and cystatin C [ 11, 28- 31].

Among the total 1847 patients who underwent RRT in that study, only 573 (31.0%) fulfilled the sCr criterion and 691 (37.4%) would probably fulfill the urine criterion for AKI stage III, and the remaining 583 (31.6%) would be classified into earlier stage [ 36].

When diagnosing the AKI, 102 achieved RIFLE maximum by sCr criteria, 19 by urine criteria and 31 by both criteria.

1) Based on serum creatinine and urine criteria only, the initiation of CVVH not taken into account.

Many studies omitted the urine criteria because they retrospectively applied the RIFLE criteria to existing databases that did not capture either any urine output criteria or only captured urine output data in a form that cannot be applied.

Of the remaining group, 691 patients were oliguric with a urine output < 400 ml/day and would have (probably) fulfilled the urine criteria for AKI III.

Second, as our routine data did not include information about urine output we could not utilize urine criteria in the RIFLE classification of AKI.

Urine criteria of AKI were not utilized in this study because of potential changes in urinary volume induced by some medical therapy.

RIFLE is the first widely accepted AKI definition, validated in over half a million patients worldwide [ 5- 7]; however, the urine criteria are frequently discarded [ 8- 16].

SCr, serum creatinine We hypothesized that discarding the urine criteria not only decreases the estimated incidence of AKI but also increases the time to AKI diagnosis.