Risk factors for the development of chronic kidney disease after an episode of acute kidney injury with full recovery

Abstract Acute kidney injury is a clinico-biological syndrome responsible even after recovery of normal renal function for a higher short-term risk of developing chronic kidney disease. We conducted a retrospective descriptive study that included patients hospitalized for acute kidney injury with full recovery between January 2002 and December 2015 and who were followed up to one year after their discharge. In the short term, 176 patients were followed, of whom 18 patients (10.2%) had developed chronic kidney disease with an average delay of 9.07 ± 0.4 months. Patients reaching the chronic kidney disease stage were older, half were over 70 years old, 61% were diabetics; 13 of them were multitared and 15 had a glomerual filtration rate < 60 ml/min at discharge. Our results suggest that the development of chronic kidney disease most often occurred in the first year following an episode of acute kidney injury