Improving the Prediction of Cardiac Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. The inability to predict cardiac surgery-associated AKI is a major barrier to prevention and early treatment. Current clinical risk models for the prediction of cardiac surgery-associated AKI are insufficient, particularly in patients with preexisting kidney dysfunction.

Methods

To identify intraoperative variables that might improve the performance of a validated clinical risk score (Cleveland Clinic Score, CCS) for the prediction of cardiac surgery-associated AKI, we conducted a prospective cohort study in 289 consecutive elective cardiac surgery patients at a tertiary care center. We compared the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) of a base model includi

SUBMITTER: Crosina J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5678656 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature