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Sepsisinduced acute kidney injury: a disease of the microcirculation

  

  1. 1.Departmentof Critical  Care Medicine, the Fourth Hospital  of Hebei Medical, Shijiazhunag 050011, China;
    2.Departmentof Critical  Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China;
    3. Department of Critical Care Medicine,  the First Hospital of Tsinghua University,  Beijing 100010, China;
    4.Department of Critical Care  Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu  610041, China;
    5.Department of Intensive Care  Unit, Xiangya Hospital Central  South  University, Changsha  410008, China;
    6.Department  of Critical  Care Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing 100730, China;
    7.Department  of  Critical  Care  Medicine, Ruijin Hospital  Afiliated  to  Shanghai  Jiao  Tong  University School 
    of Medicine, Shanghai  200025, China; 8.Department of  Critical  Care  Medicine, 
    the First Hospital  of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001,
  • Online:2019-07-20 Published:2019-08-24
  • Contact: Coresponding author: Hu Zhenjie, Email: syicu@vip.sina.com

Abstract: The renal hemodynamics in sepsis induced acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by renal macro and microcirculation separation. In  such case, renal blood flow is normal or even enhanced,  while the renal microcirculation is in a state of  ischemia and hypoxia because of the intrarenal blood shunt,  heterogeneity,  stasis and obstruction. This phenomenon suggests that septic AKI belongs to microcirculation  disease,  and “microcirculation perfusion guided” strategy should be a therapeutic goal in future.

Key words: sepsis, acute kidney injury