Protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis for the assessment of risk factors affecting the development and outcome of functional and structural acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: the METARIS CS-AKI study
Abstract Introduction In addition to serum creatinine (SCr), a kidney functional biomarker, structural damage biomarkers such as neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) may improve identification of patients at risk of adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery. Previous meta-analyses have relied on study-level d...