AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Poor electronic medical record (EMR) usability is detrimental to both clinicians and patients. A better EMR would provide concise, context sensitive patient data, but doing so entails the difficult task of knowing which data are relevant. To determin...
Neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a protein that was found to be overexpressed in acute kidney injury (AKI). The rise in NGAL concentration, both in urine or plasma, appears earlier than for other classical renal function markers s...
BACKGROUND: The current acute kidney injury (AKI) risk prediction model for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) employed regression te...
Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.]
Sep 26, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to predict the risk of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) associated with acute lung injury (ALI) by artificial neural networks (ANNs) model.
Advances in rheumatology (London, England)
Jun 28, 2018
BACKGROUND: Little has been published about the epidemiology of Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) in South America, especially in the intertropical zone, and no epidemiological data from Brazil are available. The purpose of the present study was...
Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) has increased dramatically over the past two decades due to rising prevalence of comorbidities and broadening repertoire of nephrotoxic medications. Hospitalized patients with AKI are at higher risk for complica...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 22, 2018
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI), characterized by abrupt deterioration of renal function, is a common clinical event among hospitalized patients and it is associated with high morbidity and mortality. AKI is defined in three stages with stage-3...
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Dec 28, 2016
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effect of 2 types of hydroxyethyl starches (HES) on renal integrity and blood transfusion in cardiac surgery patients.
BACKGROUND: Ileostomy creation is associated with postoperative dehydration and readmission; however, the effect on renal function is unknown. Our goal was to characterize the impact of ileostomy creation on acute and chronic renal function.
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