The association of acute kidney injury with hospital readmission and death after pediatric cardiac surgeryCentral MessagePerspective

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) in children undergoing cardiac surgery (CS) is strongly associated with increased hospital mortality and length of stay. The association of AKI with postdischarge outcomes is unclear. We evaluated the association of AKI with all-cause readmissions and death with...

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Main Authors: Sophia Nunes, MSc, Jeremiah Brown, PhD, MS, Chirag R. Parikh, MD, PhD, Jason H. Greenberg, MD, MHS, Prasad Devarajan, MD, Heather Theissen Philbrook, PhD, MMath, Michael Pizzi, BSc, Ana Palijan, PhD, MS, Michael Zappitelli, MD, MSc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:JTCVS Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666273620300681