Association Between Acute Kidney Injury and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions | Zendy

Judith Kooiman | Zendy; Milan Seth | Zendy; Brahmajee K. Nallamothu | Zendy; Michael Heung | Zendy; David Humes | Zendy; Hitinder S. Gurm | Zendy

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Association Between Acute Kidney Injury and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Author(s) -

Judith Kooiman,

Milan Seth,

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu,

Michael Heung,

David Humes,

Hitinder S. Gurm

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

circulation cardiovascular interventions

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.621

H-Index - 95

eISSN - 1941-7632

pISSN - 1941-7640

DOI - 10.1161/circinterventions.114.002212

Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , acute kidney injury , percutaneous coronary intervention , propensity score matching , odds ratio , confidence interval , relative risk , surgery , cardiology , myocardial infarction

Nearly one-third of the in-hospital mortality post PCI is attributable to AKI. Preventing 9 cases of AKI could potentially prevent one death. These study findings stress the need for developing effective AKI preventive strategies beyond minimization of contrast dose.

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