Title Page
Summary
Contents
I. Introduction 8
II. Patients and Methods 10
1.1. Participants and study design 10
1.2. Definitions of renal recovery 10
1.3. Urine samples 11
1.4. Statistical analyses 11
III. Results 12
IV. Discussion 14
V. REFERENCES 18
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of patients by presence of recovery from AKI 27
Table 2. BUN, Serum Cr, FENa, urine Na and random urine protein/Cr over time 28
Table 3. Urinary biomarkers over time 29
Figure 1. Cause of AKI 30
Figure 2. Comparisons between recovery group and non-recovery group 31