Prevalence of acute kidney injury in cardiac patients in the Intensive Care Unit

• Main Authors: Tarek A Ghonemy (Author), Hala M Allam (Author), Amir M Elokely (Author), Esam Lotfy (Author), Sayed Elnahal (Author), Amal F Gharib (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) has consistently been associated with adverse clinical outcome after acute myocardial infarction (MI). In addition, AKI is well-known as a potent predictor of the clinical course in heart failure patients. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and ri...