Frequency of acute kidney injury and its short-term effects after acute myocardial infarction

Objective: to find out the frequency of acute kidney injury and its short-term effects after acute myocardial infarction. methods: this descriptive,cross-sectional study was conducted at the cardiology department of lady reading hospital’s postgraduate medical institute,peshawar,pakistan,from january to june 2016,and comprised acute myocardial infarction patients. non-probability consecutive sampling technique was used. spss 20 was used for data analysis. results: of the 207 patients,154(74.7%) were male and 53(25.6%) were female. the overall mean age was 59.09±8.6 years. at admission,the mean baseline creatinine was 0.97±0.23,the mean glomerular filtration rate was 83.30±25.4 ml/min,and 30(14.4%) patients had an estimated glomerular filtration rate<60 ml/min. moreover,43(20.7%) patients developed acute kidney injury. post-myocardial infarction in-hospital complications were higher in patients with acute kidney injury (p<0.05). conclusion: in-hospital,short-term effects including acute heart failure,cardiogenic shock and arrhythmias were higher in acute kidney injury patients after acute myocardial infarction. © 2017,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.