BOSTON — For patients with cirrhosis waitlisted for liver transplant who were hospitalized with acute kidney injury (AKI), 90-day survival outcomes were improved with AKI response, according to the results of a retrospective study presented here.
Of the patients with AKI response, 89.4% were alive at 90 days compared with 76.2% who did not respond (HR 0.34, 95% CI 0.18-0.65, P=0.001), reported Xing Li, MD, MBA, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Responders also had significantly improved 90-day transplant-free survival (63.5% vs 25.2%, respectively; HR 0.35, 95% CI 0.25-0.50, P
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