The renal angina index (RAI) is a validated scoring tool for predicting acute kidney injury (AKI). We investigated the efficacy of the RAI in 2436 heterogeneous patients (mean age, 70 years) treated in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs). The RAI...
AIMS: This study aimed to determine the new cut-off value of serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) levels for detecting patients with sarcoidosis and to examine the change in ACE levels after the initiation of immunosuppressive therapy. METHOD...
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Harigaya H   Kan S   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Shiino K   Sugimoto K   Yamada A   Inuzuka H   Kato M   Sone M   Takada K   Sugimoto K   Takagi Y   Iwase M   Ozaki Y   
Impact of Mild   Increase in   Serum Creatinine Levels in Patients   Undergoing Emergency Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS   
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Takada K   Okumura M   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Okuyama R   Ishii J   Suzuki A   Hashimoto T   Hattori K   Kawai H   Okumura M   Naruse H   Motoyama S   Matsui S   Watanabe E   Izawa H   Ito M   Ozaki Y