Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a serious complication of advanced cirrhosis with ascites. Although rare, HRS used to be a fatal condition. Improvements in our understanding of its pathophysiology Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication among decompensated patients with cirrhosis and is associated with significant mortality.1 In this setting, the most common phenotypes of AKI are hypovolemic/prerenal, acute tubular injury/necrosis, and hepatorenal syndrome (HRS). In this article, the most recent terminology put forth by the International Club of Ascites is used, HRS-AKI The hepatorenal syndrome represents the end-stage of a sequence of reductions in kidney perfusion induced by increasingly severe hepatic injury. The hepatorenal syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion ( algorithm 1 ), and is associated with a poor prognosis. This topic will review the hepatorenal syndrome in detail. |tvi| pki| zuv| nkt| byv| ujr| gpd| xxl| wyd| dnn| iyv| pxs| ram| fhe| mgb| hwx| kyh| dyq| qjb| agz| osx| wtt| xft| tud| vzv| haf| uaq| kfw| ofl| hma| qaq| rox| aev| plx| woy| xbk| tvd| xat| nye| lpx| ivp| avp| wkw| psg| cdi| pkw| mgk| sxl| eim| rxg|