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Published in: Critical Care 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Letter

Assessing preoperative plasma growth-differentiation factor-15 for prediction of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Authors: Wei Zhang, Hai Chen Chu, Feng Xue

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2017

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With great interest, we read the recent article published by Heringlake et al. [1] assessing whether preoperative plasma GDF-15 independently predicts postoperative AKI in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. Many factors in this study were done well. Other than strict inclusion and exclusion criteria of patients, the authors had also tried to control most of the known risk factors that can affect AKI. We thank the authors for their endeavor to validate that preoperative plasma GDF-15 independently predicts postoperative AKI in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. Nevertheless, other than the limitations described in the discussion, we note that several important issues of this study were not addressed. …
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Metadata
Title
Assessing preoperative plasma growth-differentiation factor-15 for prediction of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Authors
Wei Zhang
Hai Chen Chu
Feng Xue
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-017-1623-3

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