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SUBMITTER: Thiele RH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4348689 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thiele Robert H RH Isbell James M JM Rosner Mitchell H MH
Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 20141106 3
Approximately 18% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery experience AKI (on the basis of modern standardized definitions of AKI), and approximately 2%-6% will require hemodialysis. The development of AKI after cardiac surgery portends poor short- and long-term prognoses, with those developing RIFLE failure or AKI Network stage III having an almost 2-fold increase in the risk of death. AKI is caused by a variety of factors, including nephrotoxins, hypoxia, mechanical trauma, inflammation, cardiop ...[more]