| Author/year | Number of patients | Post-operative AKI (%) including dialysis | Permanent post-operative kidney graft failure (%) | Comment |
| Bolman [4] /1984 | 14 | Zero | Zero |
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| Dresler [5] /1997 | 45 | Zero | 8.9 |
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| Mitruka [6] /1997 | 64 patients with solid organ transplants (40 were kidney transplants) | 10 | 5 |
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| Ferguson [7] /1999 | 83 (45 post transplant revascularization) | Zero | Zero | No graft loss seen in postoperative cardiac surgery |
| Ono [8] /2002 | 60 ASOT patients (46 kidney transplant) | 8.7 | Zero | 3 and 5 years graft survival were both 80%. |
| Reddy [9] /2002 | 26 | 11.5 | 3.8 | 11.5% graft loss at mean follow up. |
| Massad [11] /2005 | 32 | 6 | 6 |
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| Moazami [12] /2006 | 26 | 7.7 | Zero |
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| Zhang [13] /2006 | 57 | 14 | 3.5 |
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| Deb [14] /2006 | 47 patients ASOT (kidney transplant was 34) | 3 | 3 |
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| John [15] /2007 | 70 ASOT patients (kidney transplant 58) | 32.6 | 9.3 |
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| Musci [16] /2007 | 39 heart and kidney transplant patients (kidney transplant 16) | 6 | 6 |
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| Rahmanian [17] /2009 | 29 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
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| Shayan [19] /2011 | 43 | 72 | 26 | No difference in off pump vs. on pump CABG in renal allograft failure or post operative acute kidney injury. |
| Sharma R [20] /2012 | 36 kidney and liver transplants (30 were kidney transplants) | 8.3 | Zero (all recovered) |
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| Rocha [22] /2014 | 92 | 21 | 3.3 | Freedom from dialysis at: 1 year: 90%, 5 years: 66%, 8 years: 49% |
| Vargo [23] /2015 | 3535 ASOT patients (2712 were kidney transplant patients) | 37.5 | 2 (kidney transplant subset) |
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| Basic-Jukic [24] /2015 | 13 | 30.8 | 15.4 |
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| Farag [26] /2017 | 70 ASOT patients (49 were kidney transplants) | 17.1 | 12.9 |
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| Kohmoto [27] /2018 | 115 patients with kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas transplants. (82 were kidney transplants) | 7 | 37 | Long term graft loss in kidney transplant subset was 37% |
| Bozso [28] /2019 | 20 patients with kidney, liver, lung or bone-marrow. Kidney transplants were 14 patients. | 50 | Zero |
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| Komagamine [29] /2020 | 23 | 13 | 14 at 1 year | Freedom from renal graft failure at: 1-year: 86% 5-years: 80% |
| Mace [30] /2020 | 179 | 5 | 3.4 | Freedom from renal graft failure at: 1-year: 95%, 5-years:79%, 10-years: 53% Predictor of long-term renal allograft loss was preoperative serum creatinine > 1.9 mg/dl. |
| Bianco [31] /2020 | 129 patients with solid organ transplants. Kidney transplant patients were 84 patients. | 10 | 4 |
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| Fabio [32] /2021 | 129 patients with solid organ transplants (97 patients were kidney transplants) | 19 | 9.3 |
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| Hundemer [3] /2021 | 83 | 46 | 10 | Highest incidence of AKI was seen in patients who received a deceased donor and high Calcineurin inhibitor trough level. |
| Fazmin [33] /2021 | 38 | 74 | 45 |
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