USD4 Million Award to Improve Detection of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery.

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New Haven, Conn. -- Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have received a five-year,USD4 million National Institutes of Health grant to study novel ways to improve the diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI), a common complication of cardiac surgery that results in increased mortality.

Results from serum creatinine, the current diagnostic test for AKI, are usually normal until two to three days after cardiac surgery.

To speed the detection of AKI in cardiac surgery patients, Yale researchers, led by nephrologist Chirag Parikh, M.D., are studying three...