What are the incidence, mortality impact, and predictors of acute kidney injury in patients with heart failure?
Acute kidney injury occurs in about a third of hospitalized heart failure patients and is associated with a tripled risk of in-hospital mortality.
, blood urea nitrogen > 24 mg/dL, intravenous dobutamine, and serum albumin were predictor factors for HF patients with AKI (P < 0.05). In this meta-analysis, AKI occurred in approximately 33% of HF patients during hospitalization and the risk of dying in the hospital was tripled. Even during 1-year long-term follow-up, the risk of death remained high, and multiple inpatient variables showed that HF patients tended to have AKI. Early intervention and treatment are important to reduce the incidence of AKI and improve the prognosis.
Ru et al. (Wed,) studied this question.