title: [Acute kidney failure and nutrition].
abstract: Acute renal failure (ARF) is characterized by a persistently high mortality rate, mainly in prerenal, postaggressive forms. Nutritional perturbations are related to the metabolic response to stress, ie mainly an elevation of the basal caloric expenditure and a marked proteic hypercatabolism, and to specific consequences of the loss of renal function. Identification of characteristic metabolic patterns and of their mediators, leading to a nutritional support adjusted to the elevated demand rather than to the impairment of renal excretion faculties, may improve the prognosis. Benefits of such a nutritional support may be restricted to hypercatabolic forms of ARF in the intensive care unit, provided extrarenal failures are reversible.
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie 1, hôpital de Hautepierre, hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Simeoni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fischbach
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Geisert
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Insuffisance rénale aiguë et nutrition.