Erschienen in:
14.12.2017 | Editorial
Contrast-associated acute kidney injury is a myth: We are not sure
verfasst von:
Kianoush Kashani, Adeera Levin, Miet Schetz
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Excerpt
Contrast-induced nephropathy, recently renamed “contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI)” or “post-contrast AKI (PC-AKI)” is considered an iatrogenic cause of AKI with adverse short- and long-term outcomes [
1]. Over the past years, the evidence for a causal association between contrast and AKI has been challenged. We use the Bradford–Hill criteria to re-evaluate this relationship. …