Urinary biomarkers of AKI and mortality 3 years after cardiac surgery

SG Coca, AX Garg, H Thiessen-Philbrook… - Journal of the …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Urinary biomarkers of AKI provide prognostic value for in-hospital outcomes, but little is
known about their association with longer-term mortality after surgery. We sought to assess
the association between kidney injury biomarkers and all-cause mortality in an international,
multicenter, prospective long-term follow-up study from six clinical centers in the United
States and Canada composed of 1199 adults who underwent cardiac surgery between 2007
and 2009 and were enrolled in the Translational Research in Biomarker Endpoints in AKI …