Changing Paradigms in Acute Kidney Injury: From Mechanisms to Management: Proceedings of the 8th Annual UAB-UCSD O'Brien Center Symposium

摘要

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an occurrence of kidney failure/damage that can happen within hours to a few days. The research surrounding this disease state has rapidly evolved to elucidate further the mechanisms and pathways of AKI and how these affect other organ systems and processes. Biomarkers and other small molecules have provided new tools and techniques to further characterize AKI, including genetic and epigenetic modifications, environmental influences, and the mechanisms within the kidney. Further understanding the pathophysiology of AKI offers challenging perspectives in clinical and translational research. This issue summarizes the proceedings of the 8th annual symposium that was sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) - University of California San Diego (UCSD) O'Brien Center for AKI Research and held during the 23rd annual Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy conference in San Diego, California on March 6, 2018.