Can remote ischaemic preconditioning prevent aki?

A randomized multicentre controlled study of 240 cardiac surgery patients at high risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) has demonstrated that remote ischaemic preconditioning can reduce the rate

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AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Renal Division and Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle,

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consults on AKI for Astellas Pharma, AbbVie, and Takeda and consults and holds equity in MediBeacon, Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc., and Thrasos Therapeutics. J.V.B. is a co-inventor on KIM-1

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