Risk factors for acute kidney injury after pediatric cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis

Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in both adults and children.This study aimed to identify clinical risk factors for AKI following cardiac surgery in the pediatric population.PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and reference lists of relevant articles were searched for studies published by August 2020.Studies were included if (1) the population consisted of pediatric patients (<...