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Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important complication of liver cirrhosis, that increases the mortality in the cirrhotic patients, usually diagnosed as hepatorenal syndrome (HRS). However, there is no proven link between the etiology of liver cirrhosis and the risk of kidney injury. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study on 171 patients with liver cirrhosis admitted to our clinic during a year. We compared data on Child-Pugh and Meld-Na scores, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), serum creatinin...