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Results: From the selected studies, we obtained data on 32 patients with a mean age of 11.02 \u00b1 2.82 years, including 13 males and 19 females. Among them, 26 presented with polyuria: 19 with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), 5 with new-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) without DKA, 1 with Bartter syndrome, and 1 with neuroblastoma. In 12 patients with DKA, data to calculate AKI prevalence were not available. Among the remaining 20 patients (all with polyuria), 9 (45%) developed AKI. AKI stage 3 was observed in 4 patients and stage 2 in 1 patient. For the remaining 5 patients with AKI, no information about the AKI stage was available. Conclusions: AKI can present with polyuria as part of its pathophysiological mechanism. 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