Study co-authors include David Leaf, MD, MMSc, Jan Dieleman, MD, Diederik van Dijk, MD, PhD, Arno Nierich, MD, PhD, Peter Rosseel, MD, PhD, Joost van der Maaten, MD, PhD, Jan Hofland, MD, PhD, Jan Diephuis, MD, Fellery de Lange, MD, PhD, Christine Boer, PhD, Jolanda Kluin, MD, PhD, Sushrut Waikar, MD, MPH, for the Dexamethasone for Cardiac Surgery (DECS) Study Group.
Disclosures: The DECS study was sponsored by grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) and the Dutch Heart Foundation.
The article, entitled “Intraoperative High-Dose Dexamethasone and Severe Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery,” appears online at http://jasn.asnjournals.org/.