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How long do you wait before arranging AVF placement in patients with AKI who remain dialysis dependent?
Answer from: at Community Practice
About 35-45% of dialysis-requiring AKI patients discharged from the hospital on dialysis will recover sufficient renal function to stop dialysis. The majority of patients who recover kidney function do so within the first 60 days after discharge. Elderly patients and those with poor pre-AKI kidney f...
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Answer from: at Academic Institution
At 90 days if they are still on dialysis, they would be considered ESRD. It would be nice to have started the fistula placement before that. A lot of it depends on other factors. For example, if I have a patient who has baseline creatinine in the 3s and a lot of proteinuria, then develops AKI and st...