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Renal ultrasound provides low utility in evaluating cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury

BACKGROUND: Renal ultrasonography is part of the algorithm in assessing acute kidney injury (AKI). The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical utility of renal US in postoperative cardiac patients who develop AKI. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of 90 postoperative cardiac surge...

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Autores principales: Young, Allen, Crawford, Todd, Pierre, Alejandro Suarez, Trent Magruder, J., Fraser, Charles, Conte, John, Whitman, Glenn, Sciortino, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0637-x