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Chronic Kidney Disease Severity and 30-Day Hospital Readmission Following Endovascular Aneurysm Repair, With Secondary Assessment of One-Year Mortality.

Key takeaways

People with worse kidney filtering rate (eGFR) were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after heart surgery — but this study only shows a link, not proof that kidney problems caused the readmissions.

Who did this work

Moffat A (Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA. Electronic address: moffat@livemail.uthscsa.edu.) · Ansingkar K (Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.) · Rahimi M (Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-08-19
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2026.08.009