Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious complication in hospitalized patients, particularly after major surgical procedures, such as cardiac surgery. It can reach an incidence of approximately 37% in postoperative coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients, with about 0.3% to 15% of patients progressing to the need for renal replacement therapy (RRT). The significance of this lies in the fact that the presence of AKI increases mortality rates to around 1.3% to 22.3%, reaching values between 25% and 88.9% in patients requiring RRT.
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