[Renal replacement therapy after elective surgical procedures]

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is not a rare postoperative complication in surgical patients. AKI dramatically affects patient's condition, increases hospital-stay and risk of lethal outcome. Moreover, AKI may be followed by deterioration of basic renal function in short- and long-term period. It seemed interesting to us to generalize the clinical data of general surgical patients treatment, which were need to use renal replacement therapy for acute renal failure in postoperative period. The analysis made us possible to draw conclusions that can broaden our understanding of the causes, course and outcomes of acute renal failure in such a patients.