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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common multifactorial syndrome in hospitalized patients. Patients in critical care units have the highest risk of developing AKI, which is related to an increase in morbidity and doubles in-hospital mortality (10.2% vs. 25.6%) and at 90 days (16.6% vs. 33.7%).
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Background:
In general, patients referred to cardiac surgery are aging. An increasing number of patients are now older than 70 years. [1]This older population of patients undergoing cardiac surgery often has several comorbidities and has an increased risk of complications and mortality compared to
What will be done in this protocol? Specific to Aim 1: To investigate the correlation between changes in RBF after exposure to iodinated contrast agent, measured by CEU, on occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a population of subjects at risk for CN.
Procedures: Subjects with an estimated