- About 200,000 people in the United States are affected by an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) each year.
- Acute kidney injury is a known potential risk factor following surgical AAA repair.
- Researchers from Michigan Medicine have developed an algorithm to detect a person’s kidney damage risk before an endovascular AAA repair.
- Using their algorithm, scientists found women have a 1.4 times higher chance of developing acute kidney injury after an endovascular AAA repair.
Each year, about 200,000 people in the United States are affected by an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
An AAA occurs when the walls of the main artery that runs through the
Many times surgery — either
Researchers from Michigan Medicine recently designed an algorithm that can be used by doctors before performing an endovascular AAA repair to measure a person’s risk for developing kidney damage.
After applying their new algorithm to the data of more than 7,000 people, the researchers reported that women are 1.4 times more likely than men to develop acute kidney injury after receiving endovascular AAA repair.
This study was recently published in the journal Annals of Vascular Surgery.
Acute kidney injury occurs when the function of the kidneys declines and they are no longer able to remove waste products from the body.
This causes a build-up of waste in the body, which can lead to long-term kidney damage and chronic kidney disease.
Doctors use the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) to determine whether a person has acute kidney injury.
The KDIGO uses specific measures of the body waste product creatinine to make this judgement. Signs of kidney injury include:
- an increase in serum creatinine of more than or equal to 0.3 milligrams per…
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