Moderate to severe acute kidney injury lead to worse outcomes in complex thoracic aortic surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Moderate to severe AKI is a serious complication and is associated with significantly worse short- and long-term outcome; targeting mild AKI with therapeutic intervention is an important step in improving patient outcome.
PMID: 32771466 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - August 5, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Guo MH, Tran D, Glineur D, Al-Atassi T, Boodhwani M Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research