Acute Kidney Injury in Lower-Extremity Joint Arthroplasty: Clinical Epidemiology, Prevention, and Management

Acute kidney injury, defined as an increase in serum creatinine of 0.3 mg/dL or >50% of baseline or sustained oliguria with urine output of 6 hours, affects 2% to 15% of patients undergoing lower-extremity joint arthroplasty. Patients who develop acute kidney injury have an increa