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Ravindra L. Mehta is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with a significant emphasis on nephrology, contributing to 97 publications in this particular subfield. Other notable subfields of study include surgery, critical care and intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, predominantly acute kidney injury research, which accounts for 116 publications. Additional areas of study include chronic kidney disease and diabetes, trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation, muscle and compartmental disorders, dialysis and renal disease management, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, and cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Ravindra L. Mehta has published extensively in various scientific journals with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Nature Reviews Nephrology (9 publications)
  • Intensive Care Medicine (6 publications)
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (5 publications)
  • Pediatric Nephrology (4 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (3 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ravindra L. Mehta include:

  • COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 28th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup, 2023, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Controversies in acute kidney injury: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference, 2020, Kidney International
  • Postoperative acute kidney injury in adult non-cardiac surgery: joint consensus report of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative and PeriOperative Quality Initiative, 2021, Nature Reviews Nephrology

Collaborative efforts are a significant part of Ravindra L. Mehta's research, with frequent co-authors including Marlies Ostermann, Claudio Ronco, John A. Kellum, Etienne Macedo, and Alexander Zarbock. The number of joint publications with these colleagues ranges from 21 to 40, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Acute renal failure - definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group.

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Claudio Ronco;John A Kellum;Ravindra L Mehta

  • Acute Kidney Injury Network: Report of an Initiative to Improve Outcomes in Acute Kidney Injury

    Ravindra L Mehta;John A Kellum;Sudhir V Shah;Bruce A Molitoris

  • Kidney disease: Improving global outcomes (KDIGO) acute kidney injury work group. KDIGO clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury

    John A. Kellum;Norbert Lameire;Peter Aspelin;Rashad S. Barsoum

  • Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study

    Eric A.J. Hoste;Eric A.J. Hoste;Eric A.J. Hoste;Sean M. Bagshaw;Rinaldo Bellomo;Cynthia M. Cely

  • Acute kidney disease and renal recovery: consensus report of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) 16 Workgroup

    Lakhmir S. Chawla;Rinaldo Bellomo;Azra Bihorac;Stuart L. Goldstein

  • In-center hemodialysis six times per week versus three times per week.

    Glenn M Chertow;Nathan W Levin;Gerald J Beck

  • Spectrum of acute renal failure in the intensive care unit: the PICARD experience.

    Ravindra L. Mehta;Maria T. Pascual;Sharon Soroko;Brandon R. Savage

  • Fluid accumulation, survival and recovery of kidney function in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury

    Josée Bouchard;Sharon B. Soroko;Glenn M. Chertow;Jonathan Himmelfarb

  • Acute kidney injury: an increasing global concern

    Norbert H Lameire;Arvind Bagga;Dinna Cruz;Jan De Maeseneer

  • International Society of Nephrology's 0by25 initiative for acute kidney injury (zero preventable deaths by 2025): a human rights case for nephrology

    Ravindra L Mehta;Jorge Cerdá;Emmanuel A Burdmann;Marcello Tonelli

  • Effects of sevelamer and calcium on coronary artery calcification in patients new to hemodialysis

    Geoffrey A. Block;David M. Spiegel;James Ehrlich;Ravindra Mehta

  • Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy

    Adeera Levin;Marcello Tonelli;Joseph Bonventre;Josef Coresh

  • Diuretics, mortality, and nonrecovery of renal function in acute renal failure.

    Ravindra L. Mehta;Maria T. Pascual;Sharon Soroko;Glenn M. Chertow

  • A randomized clinical trial of continuous versus intermittent dialysis for acute renal failure

    Ravindra L. Mehta;Brian Mcdonald;Francis B. Gabbai;Madeleine Pahl

  • Raising awareness of acute kidney injury: a global perspective of a silent killer

    Andrew J.P. Lewington;Jorge Cerdá;Ravindra L. Mehta

  • COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup.

    Mitra K. Nadim;Lui G. Forni;Lui G. Forni;Ravindra L. Mehta;Michael J. Connor

  • Plasma cytokine levels predict mortality in patients with acute renal failure.

    Edith M. Simmons;Jonathan Himmelfarb;M. Tugrul Sezer;Glenn M. Chertow

  • Intensive care of patients with acute liver failure: Recommendations of the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group

    R. Todd Stravitz;Andreas H. Kramer;Timothy Davern;A. Obaid S Shaikh

  • Fluid accumulation, recognition and staging of acute kidney injury in critically-ill patients

    Etienne Macedo;Josée Bouchard;Sharon H Soroko;Glenn M Chertow

  • Refining Predictive Models in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Renal Failure

    Ravindra L. Mehta;Maria T. Pascual;Carmencita G. Gruta;Shunping Zhuang

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum University of Pittsburgh
Claudio Ronco
Claudio Ronco University of Padua
Glenn M. Chertow
Glenn M. Chertow Stanford University
Eric Hoste
Eric Hoste Ghent University Hospital
Adeera Levin
Adeera Levin University of British Columbia
Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo Monash University
Sean M. Bagshaw
Sean M. Bagshaw University of Alberta
Andrew D. Shaw
Andrew D. Shaw University of Alberta
David G. Warnock
David G. Warnock University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jonathan Himmelfarb
Jonathan Himmelfarb University of Washington

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