Pre-operative level of FGF23 predicts severe acute kidney injury after heart surgery in children.

Oded VolovelskyTara C TerrellHayley SwainMichael R BennettDavid S CooperStuart L Goldstein

Published in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2018)

Pre- and post-operative FGF23 levels are higher in children who develop sAKI after cardiac surgery. We suggest FGF23 may be able to detect sub-clinical kidney injury and can be used with demographic AKI risk factors to enhance post-operative sAKI risk prediction.

Keyphrases

acute kidney injury
risk factors
young adults
cardiac surgery
minimally invasive
heart failure
coronary artery bypass
early onset
coronary artery disease
atrial fibrillation
drug induced
percutaneous coronary intervention