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...
Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Because proteinuria is a sentinel marker of renal dysfunction, we assessed its role in predicting CA-AKI in patients undergoing PCI. A ...
European heart journal 32(22) 2814-23 2011年11月 [査読有り]
AIMS: Pathological and clinical optical coherence tomography (OCT) studies have indicated that acute coronary syndrome (ACS) lesions have either ruptured fibrous caps (RFC-ACS) or intact fibrous caps (IFC-ACS). Although computed tomographic (CT) a...
We determined nucleotide sequences and inferred amino acid sequences of viral protein (VP) 4, VP6, VP7, and nonstructural protein 4 genes of a porcine rotavirus strain (SKA-1) from Japan. The strain was closely related to a novel group of human ro...
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