Melanie Meersch

TL;DR: To determine whether early initiation of RRT in patients who are critically ill with AKI reduces 90-day all-cause mortality, a single-center randomized clinical trial of 231 critically ill patients with KDIGO stage 2 found that more patients in the early group recovered renal function by day 90.

TL;DR: In this article, the efficacy of an implementation of the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guidelines to prevent cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) in high risk patients defined by renal biomarkers was evaluated.

TL;DR: An implementation of the KDIGO guidelines compared with standard care reduced the frequency and severity of AKI after cardiac surgery in high risk patients.

TL;DR: Urinary [TIMP-2]*[IGFBP7] serves as a sensitive and specific biomarker to predict AKI early after cardiac surgery and to predict renal recovery in patients who developed AKI.

TL;DR: Among high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery, remote ischemic preconditioning significantly reduced the rate of acute kidney injury and use of renal replacement therapy and the need for renal replacement Therapy.