Background The effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, on preventing acute
kidney injury (AKI) and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) remains controversial …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious clinical syndrome, and one of the common
comorbidities in the perioperative period. AKI can lead to complications in surgical patients …

Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury is a common post-operative complication,
mostly due to increasing oxidative stress. Recently, molecular hydrogen (H2 gas) has also …

Objectives Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with higher perioperative mortality and
morbidity. Oxidative stress has been proposed as a cause of postoperative AKI. Ascorbic …

Renal ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury inflicts remote cardiac dysfunction. Studies on rats fed
with a high-fat diet (HD) showed contradictory results: some demonstrated increased …

Managing patients with post-ischaemic ventricular septal defects (VSD) and postcardiotomy
cardiogenic shock can be extremely challenging in a low-volume cardiac surgery unit. We …

Methods: A literature search of the electronic databases MEDLINE (January 2014 to
February 2022) was conducted using search terms of “urinary [TIMP-2]*[IGFBP7]”,“urinary L …

Modifiable risk factors play an important role in the premature mortality among patients
undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The aim of this study was to examine …

A Injúria Renal Aguda (IRA) é uma doença cujas principais causas são as doenças
primárias, mas também pode ser resultado de terapias medicamentosas e procedimentos …

Whole blood analysis can evaluate numerous parameters, including pH, pCO2, pO2, HCO3–
, base excess, glucose, electrolytes, lactate, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, bilirubin, and …