Marianne Schmid, Abd-El-Rahman Abd-El-Barr, Giorgio Gandaglia, Akshay Sood, Kola Olugbade, Nedim Ruhotina, Jesse D Sammon, Briony Varda, Steven L Chang, Adam S Kibel, Felix K Chun, Mani Menon, Margit Fisch, Quoc-Dien Trinh
INTRODUCTION: Patients with renal cell carcinoma who were treated with radical nephrectomy (RN) or partial nephrectomy (PN) are at risk of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI), and in consequence, short- and long-term adverse outcomes. We sought to identify independent predictors of 30-day AKI in patients undergoing RN or PN. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between 2005 and 2011, patients who underwent RN or PN for renal cell carcinoma within the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set were identified...
November 2014: Urologic Oncology