1. Acute Kidney Injury: A Relevant Complication After Cardiac Surgery
Giovanni Mariscalco, MD, PhD, Roberto Lorusso, MD, PhD, Carmelo Dominici, MD, Attilio Renzulli, MD, PhD, Andrea Sala, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages (October 2011)
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2. Fig 1
Pathogenesis and clinical phases of acute kidney injury [15]. (ATP = adenosine triphosphate; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; IABP = intraaortic balloon pump; POSTOP = postoperative.)
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3. Fig 2
Continuous relationship between postoperative renal dysfunction and mortality risk: preoperative glomerular filtration rate (GFR) 30 mL · min−1 · 1.73m−2 (dotted line), 60 mL · min−1 · 1.73m−2 (dashed line), and 90 mL · min−1 · 1.73m−2 (solid line).
(Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Thakar CV, et al, Kidney Int 2005;67:1112–9 [74], copyright 2005.)
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4. Fig 3
Survival by duration of acute kidney injury (AKI). The proportion of patients surviving from the time of cardiac surgery is plotted by the categories for the duration of AKI: no AKI (gray line), AKI for 1 to 2 days, for 3 to 6 days, and for 7 days or more (black lines [p < by log rank test]).
(Reprinted with permission from Brown JR et al, Ann Thorac Surg 2010;90:1142–8 [11].)
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