The Influence of Acute Kidney Injury on Acute Cardiovascular Disease.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important issue in the management of acute cardiovascular diseases. The risk, injury, failure, loss of kidney function, and end-stage renal failure (RIFLE) criteria, and acute kidney injury network (AKIN) criteria have been proposed to stage and predict the outcomes of patients with AKI. In this article, we review AKI in the context of a variety of acute cardiovascular diseases, e.g., acute myocardial infarction (AMI), myocarditis, aortic dissection, and post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock. For earlier detection of AKI, numerous biomarkers have been proposed and Cystatin C has been shown to have predictive value for AKI in patients with AMI.


BACKGROUND
Acute cardiovascular disease; Acute kidney injury.
The Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan;
Hsing-Shan
HS
Tsai
Department of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ; Heart Failure Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan;
Yung-Chang
YC
Chen
The Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ; Heart Failure Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ; Healthcare Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pao-Hsien
PH
Chu