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Sushrut S. Waikar
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 288
Citations - 16295
Sushrut S. Waikar is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kidney disease & Acute kidney injury. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 244 publications receiving 12435 citations. Previous affiliations of Sushrut S. Waikar include Brigham and Women's Hospital & Washington University in St. Louis.
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KDOQI US Commentary on the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury
Paul M. Palevsky,Kathleen D. Liu,Patrick D. Brophy,Lakhmir S. Chawla,Chirag R. Parikh,Charuhas V. Thakar,Ashita Tolwani,Sushrut S. Waikar,Steven D. Weisbord +8 more
TL;DR: A group of US experts in adult and pediatric AKI and critical care nephrology to review the recommendations and comment on their relevancy in the context of current US clinical practice and concerns concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support their widespread application to clinical care in the United States.
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Mortality after Hospitalization with Mild, Moderate, and Severe Hyponatremia
TL;DR: In this article, a prospective cohort study of 98,411 adults hospitalized between 2000 and 2003 at 2 teaching hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts was conducted to investigate the association between serum sodium concentration and mortality.
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Declining Mortality in Patients with Acute Renal Failure, 1988 to 2002
TL;DR: Evidence from an administrative database that the incidence of ARF and ARF-D is rising is provided, despite an increase in the degree of comorbidity, in-hospital mortality has declined.
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Creatinine Kinetics and the Definition of Acute Kidney Injury
TL;DR: An alternative definition of AKI is proposed that incorporates absolute changes in serum creatinine (SCr) over a 24- to 48-h time period and is solved differential equations on the basis of mass balance principles.
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Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury
Won K. Han,Sushrut S. Waikar,A. Johnson,Rebecca A. Betensky,Catherine L. Dent,Prasad Devarajan,Joseph V. Bonventre +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated urinary levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), N -acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG), and kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) as biomarkers for the detection of acute kidney injury.