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Serum Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 are early biomarkers of acute kidney injury and predict prolonged mechanical ventilation in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a case-control study

Kathleen D Liu1, Christopher Altmann2, Gerard Smits2, Catherine D Krawczeski3, Charles L Edelstein2, Prasad Devarajan4 and Sarah Faubel2*

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1 Divisions of Nephrology and Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

2 Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA

3 Section of Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

4 Section of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

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Critical Care 2009, 13:R104 doi:10.1186/cc7940

Published: 1 July 2009

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The following additional data are available with the online version of this article. Additional data file 1 is a table listing the cardiac surgical procedures performed in children in this cohort.

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