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SUBMITTER: Adler C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5948851 | biostudies-other | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Adler Christoph C Heller Tobias T Schregel Felix F Hagmann Henning H Hellmich Martin M Adler Joana J Reuter Hannes H
Critical care (London, England) 20180512 1
<h4>Background</h4>Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and predicts in-hospital mortality. To which extent post-resuscitation disease or the initial event of cardiac arrest and the duration of insufficient cardiac output triggers AKI is challenging to discriminate. Knowledge on molecular mediators of AKI is scarce. Early identification of patients at high risk of AKI is hampered by the low sensitivity of the established tests in clinical r ...[more]