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Published on: January 8, 2020
[RADIOCONTRAST NEPHROPATHY: MYTHS OR REALITY? THE VALUE OF PROPENSITY MATCHING APPLIED FOR LARGE DATA RETROSPECTIVE
Yuri Gorelik1, Samuel N Heyman2, Mogher Khamaisi1,3
1Internal Medicine D, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Introduction:
Reviewed are three studies we conducted, assessing the risk of contrast nephropathy in hospitalized patients undergoing computerized tomography. These were retrospective large data analyses at a single tertiary care facility, using meticulous and compound propensity score matching and inverse probability of treatment weighting. These studies indicate that overall, the risk of contrast nephropathy is likely negligible, with the exception of patients with grades 4-5 renal failure at baseline (eGFR<30 ml/min/1.73m2), with an odds ratio of 1.51 to develop AKI, associated with increased mortality as compared with patients undergoing non-enhanced imaging. We also assessed the incidence and magnitude of improved kidney function (acute kidney recovery) around imaging, underscoring its potential to mask subclinical AKI. These studies illustrate the strengths of large data analysis with advanced statistical tools.
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