Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium. kirsten.colpaert@ugent.be
Acute kidney injury occurs in approximately one-quarter to one-third of patients with major burn injury. Apart from the usual suspects - such as older age, severity of burn injury, sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction - volume overload probably has an important role in the pathogenesis of acute kidney injury.