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Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 18 (March 2010)


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Delaying Surgery After PCI Cuts Kidney Injury

MITCHEL L. ZOLER

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Combining coronary artery catheterization and cardiac surgery in the same hospital admission was linked to a significantly increased risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), compared with performing the surgery during a second, later hospitalization, a single-center study of more than 600 patients showed.

PII: S1544-8800(10)70098-1

doi:10.1016/S1544-8800(10)70098-1


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