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The terminology in current use to describe the different severities of chronic kidney disease and acute kidney disease is confusing and is applied in different ways by different authorities. In veterinary medicine, staging systems have been used for defining heart failure where a modification of a system used in human medicine is routinely supplied. This chapter covers selecting dogs and cats to be staged or graded, IRIS grading system for the patient with AKI and the IRIS CKD staging system.
Diagnostic algorithms for grading acute kidney injury and staging the chronic kidney disease patient, Page 1 of 1
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