Vnitr Lek 2023, 69(6):380-386 | DOI: 10.36290/vnl.2023.074

Multimorbidity in acute kidney injury

Vladimír Teplan

Interní a kardiologická klinika Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava a Lékařská fakulta Ostravské univerzity, Ostrava

Subkatedra nefrologie, Institut postgraduálního vzdělávání ve zdravotnictví, Praha

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is often associated with other organ damage. The most frequent are cardiac , lung,liver,gastrointestinal, vascular and skin disturbances.Serious illness is acute kidney injury due to circulation break down and toxicity, and disorders of water and mineral metabolism (hypotension,bleeding,diarrhoea,vomiting).AKI can be connected with haevy hypertension, and also with oedemas (high proteinuria) of different etiology (cardiac failure,vessel inflammation, liver and gastrointestinal lesion, oncologic illness etc.).Frequently,there is acute kidney damage in poisonig and infectious damage together with liver,lung,vessel,muscle,bone marrow injury. No doubt, multiorgan damage modify following medical management.

Keywords: acute kidney injury, multiorgan damage.

Accepted: September 21, 2023; Published: October 10, 2023  Show citation