Acute kidney injury complicating critical forms of COVID-19: risk factors and prognostic impact

This was a retrospective descriptive case/control monocentric study carried out in the medical ICU of Bizerte hospital (a tertiary teaching hospital in north of Tunisia) over a period of 18 months (September 2020-February 2022). This medical ICU is managed by medical intensivists with a novel unit of six beds created for the COVID-19 outbreak. In this study we aimed to assess the incidence, the risk factors and the prognostic impact of AKI complicating critical forms of COVID-19.