Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Patients (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

Define AKI and Its Diagnostic Criteria Describe the KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) criteria for diagnosing AKI. Differentiate between AKI and chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Identify Common Causes, Types, and Risk Factors of AKI in Hospitalized Patients Discuss the three major types of AKI: prerenal (e.g., hypovolemia, heart failure), intrinsic (e.g., acute tubular necrosis, glomerulonephritis), and postrenal (e.g., obstructive uropathy). Recognize patient populations at higher risk for AKI.
Recognize the Clinical Presentation and Laboratory Findings of AKI Interpret common laboratory markers, including creatinine trends and urine output. Identify key urinalysis and imaging findings that aid in differentiating prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal AKI.

Anis Rauf, DO

Physician

NANI

Dr. Rauf attended Northwestern University where he completed a Bachelors degree in Bio-medical Engineering in 1997 and graduated in the top 5% of his medical school class at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, IL in 2001. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. He then went on to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota to compete a Critical Care Fellowship and then came back to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood to complete a fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension. Dr. Rauf is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Critical Care Medicine. Throughout his training he has published widely on a number of Nephrology and Critical Care topics and has been noted for his outstanding teaching skills--noted by patients, students as well as his peers.

After completing his training in 2007, Dr. Rauf founded Advanced Renal Care and developed a very successful practice of several academic nephrologists before joining as a senior physician within Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois which is currently the largest nephrology practice in the US. He serves as the Medical Director of US Renal Care Oakbrook and also serves as an Associate Professor at Midwestern University Medical School. Throughout his training, he has been known to deliver high quality and compassionate care to all of his patients. The Mayo Clinic philosophy of putting the needs of the patient first permeates his every patient encounter. His expertise in clinical nephrology, hypertension, kidney transplantation, and critical care medicine gives him all the tools to deliver unparalleled care to all his patients.