Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$313,169.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Even small increases in serum creatinine portend an increased risk of short-term and long-term death. Serum creatinine, the traditional marker of renal function, only rises appr