Practice patterns and outcomes associated with intravenous albumin in patients with cirrhosis and acute kidney injury.
Kavish R PatidarMohammad AdibuzzamanMobasshir A NavedDylan RodriquezJames E SlavenAnanth GramaArchita P DesaiEduardo V GomezMarwan S GhabrilLauren D NephewNiharika R SamalaMelissa AndersonNaga P ChalasaniEric S OrmanPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2021)
USA hospitalized patients with cirrhosis and AKI frequently do not receive intravenous albumin, and albumin use was not associated with improved clinical outcomes. Prospective randomised trials are direly needed to evaluate the impact of albumin in cirrhotics with AKI.