Long-term survival in patients with septic acute kidney injury is strongly influenced by renal recovery

journals.plos.org April 20, 2019

In patients with sepsis, recovery by hospital discharge is associated with long-term survival similar to patients without AKI. Of the 1742 patients who survived to hospital discharge, stage 2–3 AKI occurred in 262 (15%), of which 111 (42.4%) recovered. Compared to recovered patients, patients without recovery were older (75 ±14 vs 69 ±15 years, p<0.001) and were more likely to have at least stage 1 AKI on day 1 (83% vs 52%, p<0.001). We analyzed patients with community-acquired pneumonia from the Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis (GenIMS) cohort.