[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for long-term mortality and progressive chronic kidney disease associated with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

JR Xu, JM Zhu, J Jiang, XQ Ding, Y Fang, B Shen… - Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The aim of the study was to evaluate risk factors for long-term mortality and progressive
chronic kidney disease (CKD) after cardiac surgery in patients with normal preoperative
renal function and postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). From April 2009 to December
2012, we prospectively enrolled 3245 cardiac surgery patients of our hospital. The primary
endpoints included survival rates and the secondary endpoint was the incidence of
progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a follow-up period of 2 years. Acute kidney …