Speaker: Fluid overload greater than 10% of body weight correlates with AKI, mortality

Several studies indicate that fluid overload greater than 10% of body weight among patients is associated with AKI and mortality, according to a speaker at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.
“We all know that potentially adverse effects of fluid overload can constitute edema,” Ashita Tolwani, MD, MSc, a professor of medicine and the Edwin A. Rutsky Endowed Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in the presentation. “It makes sense that fluid overload seems to have negative consequences. How about looking at fluid overload and acute kidney

Several studies indicate that fluid overload greater than 10% of body weight among patients is associated with AKI and mortality, according to a speaker at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.
“We all know that potentially adverse effects of fluid overload can constitute edema,” Ashita Tolwani, MD, MSc, a professor of medicine and the Edwin A. Rutsky Endowed Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in the presentation. “It makes sense that fluid overload seems to have negative consequences. How about looking at fluid overload and acute kidney