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01-10-2017 | Editorial
Acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: a preventable event?
Authors:
Kenta Kubota, Moritoki Egi, Satoshi Mizobuchi
Published in:
Journal of Anesthesia
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Issue 5/2017
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Excerpt
Cardiovascular surgery (CVS) is one of the major causes of acute kidney injury (AKI). A recently published single-center retrospective study conducted in 767 adult critically ill patients, mainly cardiac and postoperative patients, showed that the incidence of AKI was high in this cohort (51.9%) and that the mortality rate increased with progression of the AKI stage [
1]. A similar high incidence of AKI and its association with poor outcomes have also been reported in post-CVS patients in several studies [
2‐
5]. …