AIMS To determine if newer criteria for diagnosing and staging acute kidney injury (AKI) during heart failure (HF) admission are more predictive of clinical outcomes at 30 days and 1 year than the traditional worsening renal function (WRF) definition. METHODS We analyzed prospectively collected clinical data on 637 HF admissions with 30-day and 1-year follow-up. The incidence, stages, and out...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine which patients undergoing tricuspid valve (TV) surgery are at increased risk for acute kidney injury (AKI). METHODS We reviewed 951 patients [mean age 67 ± 13 years, 573 (60%) female] having TV surgery between 2000 and 2007. Analysis focused on clinical outcome; AKI was defined by the consensus RIFLE criteria (risk, injury, failure). RESULTS Surgical procedu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acute kidney injury occurs in 1% to 25% of critically ill patients with small increases in creatinine adversely affecting outcome. We sought to determine the burden of acute kidney injury in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and whether this dysfunction affects outcome. METHODS Between 1996 and 2008, 787 consecutive patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid h...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is common among patients with sepsis and increases mortality [1]. However, the prognostic utility of the newly released classification for ARF, entitled RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, and End-stage kidney disease) [2], in predicting mortality in such patients has not yet been assessed. We sought to evaluate retrospectively the usefulness of RIFLE in predicting mor...

Background: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a common and serious condition encountered in hospitalized patients. The severity of kidney injury is defined by the RIFLE, AKIN, and KDIGO criteria which attempt to establish the degree of renal impairment. The KDIGO guidelines state that the creatinine clearance should be measured whenever possible in AKI and that the serum creatinine concentration and...

The effect of rifle projectiles used for the euthanasia stranded or hunted whales has been an issue debate, in particular International Whaling Commission (IWC) and North Atlantic Marine Mammal (NAMMCO). In Norwegian hunt common minke whales, 9.3mm, .375 .458 calibre rifles are as backup weapons to euthanise that not deemed dead after being hit with a harpoon grenade. When using rifle, hunters ...

Although the epidemiology and the impact of acute kidney injury on outcomes are well known in the western literature, good data is lacking from central India. Little is known about patients sustaining acute kidney injury (AKI) in the community acquired acute kidney injury (CAAKI) and how this differs from AKI in hospital acquired acute kidney injury (HAAKI). The objective of this study is to co...