Publications by authors named "Liangguang Meng"
Background: Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a common complication with poor prognosis after coronary angiography (CAG). With the prevention methods widely being implemented, the temporal trends of incidence and mortality of CA-AKI are still unknown over the last five years. The study aims to determine the incidence and prognosis of CA-AKI in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is significantly associated with improved prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, LDL-C reduction does not decrease all-cause mortality among CAD patients when renal function impairs. The association between low baseline LDL-C (< 1.
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- Dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI-D) is a serious complication in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and advanced kidney disease (AKD), leading to high in-hospital mortality.
- In a study of 603 CAD patients with AKD, 13.8% required AKI-D, showing a higher 90-day mortality rate in these patients compared to those without AKI-D (13.3% vs. 6.5%).
- After accounting for cardiac and renal function, the association between AKI-D and 90-day mortality diminished, suggesting that the increased mortality in these patients is largely due to existing cardio-renal impairments.
Background: Population movement could extend multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) transmission and complicate its global prevalence. We sought to identify the high-risk populations and geographic sites of MDR-TB transmission in Shenzhen, the most common destination for internal migrants in China.
Methods: We performed a population-based, retrospective study in patients diagnosed with MDR-TB in Shenzhen during 2013-2017.