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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:130. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.002
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Invited Commentary

Mark Stafford-Smith, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3094 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710

(Email: staff002@mc.duke.edu).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

If you have not already heard of the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN), then let this commentary serve as your introduction. AKIN is a large and rapidly growing collaborative organization (www.akinet.org), primarily at this point involving critical care and nephrology societies (the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists will be the first perioperative organization to join). The goal of AKIN is to advance knowledge that will lead to evidence-based therapies for the treatment and prevention of acute kidney injury (AKI)

AKI is the term coined by AKIN to replace "acute renal injury." This change parallels a strategic approach to AKI investigation similar to "acute myocardial infarction" . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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