Fig 1.

Postoperative renal function predicts length of hospital stay for incisional hernia repair after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Despite a universally liberal intraoperative fluid strategy, postoperative AKI occurred in 48% of patients. Those that developed AKI received less intraoperative volume (6 vs 8.5 mL/kg/min; P = .031) and the severity of postoperative renal injury was inversely related to intraoperative volume (A). Intraoperative urine output was not effective at predicting postoperative AKI (B). The degree of renal injury was directly related to length of stay (C); patients who developed AKI had a median stay of 8 days compared to 4 days in patients who did not (D).