Patients with cirrhosis who also had a past history of alcohol use, or a recent history of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis or ascites, were most likely to develop hepatorenal syndrome–acute kidney injury compared with patients without such histories, according to new research.
The investigators also found that patients who developed HRS-AKI had higher baseline scores on the Model for End-stage Liver Disease–sodium (MELD-Na).
“In patients with the above profile,