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Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury: Prevention Rather Than Cure.

In Reply We appreciate the thoughtful letter by Wada et al in response toour study.1 InVeteransAffairs SurgicalQuality ImprovementProgram (VASQIP)–assessed cases, data for risk assessmentandpostoperativeeventsareobtainedvia 1of2methods. Themajority of data are collectedmanually by a surgical quality nurse, includingpreoperative, intraoperative, and 30daypostoperative outcomedata. Themanually co...

Prevention is better than cure

The vast majority of gastric cancers are sporadic. However, 1-3% arise as a result of inherited gastric cancer predisposition syndromes, generally referred to as hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). Of those families that fulfill the clinical criteria for HGDC only 25% have a CDH1 germline mutation. No reliable surveillance technique exists for individuals with HDGC. Difficult decisions ha...

Comment on; post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement acute kidney injury; prevention rather than cure

Dear Editor, Huber et al in a single-center cohort study of 3646 patients who underwent inpatient vascular surgery between 2000 and 2010 at a tertiary care teaching hospital demonstrated that perioperative acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in 1801 (49.4%) patients (1). Besides, adjusted cardiovascular mortality estimates at 10 years were 17%, 31%, 30%, and 41%, for patients with no kidney dise...

VIII. Conclusion: prevention rather than cure? - BIS 77th Annual Report - June 2007