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 ...
Hattori K   Ozaki Y   Okumura M   Ohta M   Ishikawa M   Ito H   Kawai H   Hashimoto T   Naruse H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Matsui S   Ishii J   
Okumura M   Ohta M   Ishikawa M   Hashimoto T   Okuyama R   Matsui S   Naruse H   Ito H   Kawai H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Harigaya H   Kan S   Naruse H   Takahashi H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Okuyama R   Ishii J   Hashimoto T   Oota M   Hattori K   Kawai T   Okumura M   Naruse H   Mori Y   Matsui S   Motoyama S   Izawa H   Ozaki Y   
Prognostic Value   of   Modest   Increases of   Plasma D-Dimer Concentration   in   Outpatients with   a   Previous History of Myocardial Infarction