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Women and acute kidney injury in myocardial infarction.

Vojko KanicMaja VollrathGregor KomparaDavid SuranRadovan Hojs
Published in: Journal of nephrology (2018)
AKI occurs more often in women than men with MI undergoing PCI. Female gender independently predicted AKI in our analysis. A high CV/GFR denotes a group of patients who are at higher risk of AKI after PCI. CV/GFR was significantly higher in women, which may help to explain their worse outcome as regards AKI.
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