Incidence and risk factors for early renal dysfunction after liver transplantation
Patricia Wiesen, Paul B Massion, Jean Joris, Olivier Detry, Pierre Damas
Patricia Wiesen, Paul B Massion, Pierre Damas, Department of General Intensive Care, University Hospital of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Jean Joris, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Olivier Detry, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege, University of Liege (CHU ULg), B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Author contributions: Wiesen P performed the literature review and wrote the manuscript; Massion PB and Damas P participated in article conception; Joris J and Detry O constituted part of the team involved in the care of liver transplanted patients.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the University Hospital of Liege Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: We did not initially claim an informed consent from the patients. Indeed, according to the institutional ethics committee’s opinion, no informed consent was required in the frame of this retrospective study. However, we phoned all alive patients with available coordinates and obtained their oral informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. This statement is signed by all the authors to indicate agreement that the above information is true and correct.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Patricia Wiesen, Department of General Intensive Care, University Hospital of Liege, Domaine universitaire du Sart Tilman B35, B-4000 Liege, Belgium. p.wiesen@chu.ulg.ac.be
Telephone: +32-4-3667495 Fax: +32-4-3668898
Received: August 12, 2015
Peer-review started: August 13, 2015
First decision: September 28, 2015
Revised: November 27, 2015
Accepted: December 17, 2015
Article in press: December 18, 2015
Published online: March 24, 2016
