Background Acute kidney injury is a common complication after cardiac surgery with
cardiopulmonary bypass. The authors evaluated the effects of normothermic
cardiopulmonary bypass on renal blood flow, glomerular filtration rate, renal oxygen
consumption, and renal oxygen supply/demand relationship, ie, renal oxygenation (primary
outcome) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods Eighteen patients with a normal
preoperative serum creatinine undergoing cardiac surgery procedures with normothermic …