Are there modifiable risk factors to improve AKI?

S Nie, L Tang, W Zhang, Z Feng… - BioMed research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common critical syndrome, with high morbidity and mortality.
Patients with AKI typically have an adverse prognosis, from incident chronic kidney disease …

[HTML][HTML] Intermediate and long-term outcomes of survivors of acute kidney injury episodes: a large population-based cohort study

S Sawhney, A Marks, N Fluck, A Levin… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The long-term prognosis after acute kidney injury (AKI) is variable. It is unclear
how the prognosis of AKI and its relationship to prognostic factors (baseline kidney function …

A risk prediction score for acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit

R Malhotra, KB Kashani, E Macedo… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critically ill patients and is associated
with high morbidity and mortality. Early identification of high-risk patients provides an …

Long-term consequences of acute kidney injury in the perioperative setting

CE Palant, RL Amdur, LS Chawla - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
AKI is a major cause for acute in-hospital mortality and development of both late-stage CKD
and cardiovascular events. Perioperative care to prevent AKI must challenge the notion that …

The public health dimension of chronic kidney disease: what we have learnt over the past decade

JR Hu, J Coresh - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Much progress has been made in chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology in the last
decade to establish CKD as a condition that is common, harmful and treatable. The …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of acute kidney injury on in-hospital mortality in acute ischemic stroke patients undergoing intravenous thrombolysis

F Gadalean, M Simu, F Parv, R Vorovenci, R Tudor… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Acute kidney injury (AKI) increases the risk of death in acute ischemic stroke
(AIS) patients. Intravenous thrombolytic therapy (iv. rt-PA) seems to be the most effective …

Glomerular proteinuria predicts the severity of acute kidney injury in Puumala hantavirus-induced tubulointerstitial nephritis

PS Mantula, TK Outinen, JPG Clement, HSA Huhtala… - Nephron, 2017 - karger.com
Abstract Background: Puumala virus (PUUV)-induced hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome is common in many European countries. The typical renal histologic lesion is …

[HTML][HTML] Cisplatin nephrotoxicity might have a sex difference. An analysis based on women's sex hormone changes

WY Chen, CH Hsiao, YC Chen, CH Ho, JJ Wang… - Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: A sex difference in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity (CIN) has been reported in
human and animal studies. We examined in humans whether it is associated with sex …

The effects of neoadjuvant therapy on morbidity and mortality of esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: American college of surgeons national surgical quality …

MJ Sabra, C Smotherman, DF Kraemer… - Journal of surgical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study used a multi‐center database to evaluate the impact of neoadjuvant
therapy on the 30‐day morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy for esophageal …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-operative functional cardiovascular reserve is associated with acute kidney injury after intervention

A Saratzis, J Shakespeare, O Jones, MJ Bown… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after endovascular
intervention, associated with poor short and long-term outcomes. However, the mechanisms …