kidney, trauma, staging systemBackgroundRenal segmental vascular injury (SVI) following blunt abdominal trauma is not part of the original AAST renal injury grading system. Recent recommendations support classifying SVI as an AAST grade 4 injury. Our primary aim was to compare outcomes following ...
On POD 2, the patient developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and on POD 4 the patient also developed acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis. The patient slowly improved but on POD 33, from the index operation, during preparations for discharge the patient became acutely unstable,...
was obtained, which showed a 5 cm liver laceration involving segments 5 and 6 (grade III) with a small amount of hemoper- itoneum. It also revealed lack of contrast enhancement of the right kidney, with focal extravasation of contrast medium and sur- ...