Acute kidney injury after coronary artery bypass grafting: assessment using RIFLE and AKIN criteria.

Objective: To compare the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-stage Renal Failure) and AKIN (Acute Kidney Injury Network) criteria for diagnosis of acute kidney injury after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Methods: Retrospective cohort. 169 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting from January 2007 through December 2008 were analyzed.

Surgical repair of coarctation of aorta in adults under left heart bypass.

Objective: To describe our experience with repair of coarctation of the aorta in adults using left heart bypass.

Methods: From November 2007 to October 2009, eight adult patients with coarctation of the aorta underwent surgical repair under circulatory support using a left atrium to femoral artery bypass circuit, with graft interposition tube through left posterolateral thoracotomy. Five patients were female, with mean age of 31.