Open AccessA retrospective comparison of preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate as a predictor of postoperative cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury
Author(s) -
Habib Md Reazaul Karim,
Muhammad Yunus,
Subhasish Dey
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_156_18
Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , renal function , odds ratio , incidence (geometry) , cardiopulmonary bypass , cardiac surgery , urology , retrospective cohort study , surgery , optics , physics
Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) remains common with distressingly high mortality. Over time, risk scorings systems have been developed to predict it and preoperative low estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) has been regarded as one of the predicting risk factors.