Abstract:Background
Sepsis patients suffer from severe inflammatory and poor prognosis. Local inflammation resulted from sepsis is found to trigger organ injury, such as acute kidney injury (AKI). We conducted a cross-sectional observational study to examine the diagnostic and prognostic role of serum heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) on sepsis-induced AKI.
Methods
The 83 enrolled patients were initially divided into two groups with no AKI (NAKI) and sepsis-induced AKI group (SAKI) based on whether had AKI. Then the patients … Show more
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