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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1549-1550
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Arjuna Weerasinghe, PhD, FRCSa, Thanos Athanasiou, PhD, FETCSb, Paris P. Tekkis, MD, FRCSb

a Imperial College, University of London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 ONN United Kingdom
b St. Mary’s Hospital, Praed St, London, W2 1NY United Kingdom

(Email: a.weerasinghe@ic.ac.uk).

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To the Editor:

We appreciate the comments mentioned in the letter by Habib and colleagues [1] regarding our article [2].

The definition for major renal adverse outcome (RAO) has evolved with time and has even been subject to revision by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. We agree with the authors who use the percentage fractional change in serum creatinine (%{triangleup}Cr) in that it may . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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