Why the study?
What are the risk factors for contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing emergency PCI?
Population
1061 consecutive patients who underwent an emergency percutaneous coronary intervention, divided into a…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
7 days
Authors
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May inform CI-AKI risk stratification in emergency PCI; hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
What are the risk factors for contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing emergency PCI?
A new risk factor profile including body surface area, prior stroke/TIA, elevated WBC, reduced eGFR, IABP use, and diuretic use can predict CI-AKI in patients undergoing emergency PCI.
Yuan et al. (2017) studied this question.
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