Faeq Husain-Syed, Fiorenza Ferrari, Aashish Sharma, Tommaso Hinna Danesi, Pércia Bezerra, Salvador Lopez-Giacoman, Sara Samoni, Massimo de Cal, Valentina Corradi, Grazia Maria Virzì, Silvia De Rosa, María Jimena Muciño Bermejo, Carla Estremadoyro, Gianluca Villa, Jose J Zaragoza, Carlotta Caprara, Alessandra Brocca, Horst-Walter Birk, Hans-Dieter Walmrath, Werner Seeger, Federico Nalesso, Monica Zanella, Alessandra Brendolan, Davide Giavarina, Loris Salvador, Rinaldo Bellomo, Mitchell H Rosner, John A Kellum, Claudio Ronco
BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery is a leading cause of acute kidney injury (AKI). Such AKI patients may develop progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). Others, who appear to have sustained no permanent loss of function (normal serum creatinine), may still lose renal functional reserve (RFR). METHODS: We extended the follow-up in the observational 'Preoperative RFR Predicts Risk of AKI after Cardiac Surgery' study from hospital discharge to 3 months after surgery for 86 (78...
February 1, 2019: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation