Point-of-care Ultrasound for Acute Kidney Injury
Acute Kidney InjuryIt is aimed to determine prerenal, renal and postrenal diagnoses of patients with acute kidney injury with POCUS performed in the emergency department. Patients who presented to the emergency department and who have acute kidney injury (AKI) according to the KDIGO criteria will be evaluated and patients diagnosed with AKI will be included in the study. The diagnostic accuracy of POCUS with the AKI etiologies of the patients will be evaluated.
Renal Regional Oxygen Saturation During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Kidney InjuryAcute1 moreThis prospective observational study evaluates the association of peri-procedural changes in renal regional oxygen saturation and post-procedural acute kidney injury in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
Acute Renal Injury After Major Elective Non-Cardiac Surgery
Acute Renal InjuryThe study is planned to be a single-center study and includes patients who underwent major surgery within Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine with an invasive arterial line. Our aim to define the incidence of acute renal injury in our setting and to investigate the risk factors listed in detailed description. After obtaining written informed consent from the patients, preoperative risk factors will be notes. Following standard anesthesia monitoring as well as routine anesthesia induction and maintenance, invasive arterial monitoring will be performed due to the major surgery and hemodynamic values will be recorded throughout the surgery. The primary outcome will be acute renal injury based on KDIGO's (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) definition of acute renal damage. Postoperative data regarding this outcome as well as additional data listed in detailed description will be collected.
International Study of Inflammation in COVID-19
Covid19Outcome4 moreThis is a prospective multi-center observational study which purpose is to evaluate the ability of blood-based inflammatory markers to risk-stratify patients hospitalized for Covid-19. Blood-based biomarkers examined include: soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin, D-dimer, ferritin, lactate dehydrogenase and interleukin-6.
Renal Involvement in Hospitalized Children With COVID-19
Acute Kidney InjuryCovid195 moreCovid-19 is an important human and animal pathogen, it mostly causes respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. Clinical features range from a common cold to severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, bronchitis, pneumonia, multi-organ failure, and even death. It seems to be less commonly affecting children and to cause fewer symptoms and less severe disease in this age group compared with adults. Clinicians have observed many extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19, as hematologic, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary, endocrinologic, neurologic, ophthalmologic, and dermatologic systems can all be affected. This retrospective study that will be conducted at Hamad General Hospital in Qatar, aims to determine the renal involvement in all pediatric patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 from March 1, 2020, to January 1, 2021.
Development and Validation of an Enhanced Prediction Score for Postoperative Acute Renal Failure...
Acute Renal FailurePost-operative acute renal failure is a severe post-operative complication and is associated with high mortality. The enhanced prediction score, including pre-as well as intra-operative predictors accurately predicted ARF following hepatic surgery. This prediction score allows early identification of patients at high risk of ARF and may support decision-making for protective kidney treatment.
Prognostic Indicators as Provided by the EPIC ClearView
Coronary Artery DiseaseCongestive Heart Failure26 moreThe objective of this study is to determine whether the finger tip images captured by the EPIC ClearView device, when analyzed via the ClearView software, produce a Response Scale that characterizes trends consistent with known diagnoses identified by medical doctors. Specifically, the investigators hypothesize that the organ system involving any of a series of known active diagnoses will be identified in the EPIC ClearView Response Scale report with the intention of providing potential triage capabilities.
Fluid Balance and Clinical Outcomes
Fluid BalanceInput and Output3 moreThis study is about investigating the relationship of postoperative fluid balance, inflammation and acute kidney injury. This is a non-interventional study (no drug administration). The investigators will collect baseline demographic data, postoperative fluid balance status by Intake-output data, follow routine labs and collect 1 blood sample (0.5ml) with morning lab draws on day 1 and 5ml urine samples on day 1 and 2.
Referral Patterns for Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Relevance to Renal Outcomes
Renal Replacement TherapyMortalityFew studies analyzed the referral time to nephrologists and its impact on the patient outcome in a large cohort. The investigators described the incidence and determined the outcome with respect to renal function recovery, renal replacement therapy (RRT) requirement and in-hospital mortality of Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury (HA-AKI) without nephrology referral (nrHA-AKI) and late referred HA-AKI patients to nephrologists (lrHA-AKI) compared with early referral patients (erHA-AKI). The patients included were admitted to the tertiary care academic center of Lausanne (Switzerland) between 2004 and 2008, in the medical and surgical services and in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Risk Model of Acute Kidney Injury After Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Thoracic Aortic SurgeryPostoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) is still one of the serious complications of thoracic aortic surgery, with incidence of 8 to 50 percent. Postoperative AKI significantly increases the morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing thoracic aortic surgery. Previous studies for AKI after DHCA reported confounding results due to different criteria of AKI. Therefore, the investigators tried to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of AKI after thoracic aortic surgery according to the diagnostic criteria and staging system of AKI reported from acute kidney injury network. The investigators also tried to develop a risk model with scoring system of AKI and evaluate the performance of the risk model.