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Sushrut S. Waikar

Sushrut S. Waikar

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Medicine

D-Index
82
Citations
31392
World Ranking
15930
National Ranking
8020

Overview

Sushrut S. Waikar is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and is primarily involved in the field of Medicine. Their research covers a broad spectrum of topics within nephrology and related biomedical sciences.

The scientist has contributed significantly to the study of kidney diseases, with a focus on chronic kidney disease and diabetes, dialysis and renal disease management, and renal diseases and glomerulopathies. Other notable areas of work include blood pressure and hypertension studies, renal and related cancers, acute kidney injury research, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney Medicine
  • Kidney International Reports

Sushrut S. Waikar has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Insa M. Schmidt
  • Chirag R. Parikh
  • Ashish Verma
  • Anand Srivastava
  • Isaac E. Stillman

Selected recent publications include:

  • Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney, 2023, Nature
  • Single cell transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling redefine cellular heterogeneity in the adult human kidney, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Detection of renal cell carcinoma using plasma and urine cell-free DNA methylomes, 2020, Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US

    Shruti Gupta;Salim S. Hayek;Wei Wang;Lili Chan

  • Mortality after Hospitalization with Mild, Moderate, and Severe Hyponatremia

    Sushrut S. Waikar;David B. Mount;David B. Mount;Gary C. Curhan

  • KDOQI US Commentary on the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury

    Paul M. Palevsky;Kathleen D. Liu;Patrick D. Brophy;Lakhmir S. Chawla

  • Declining Mortality in Patients with Acute Renal Failure, 1988 to 2002

    Sushrut S. Waikar;Gary C. Curhan;Ron Wald;Ellen P. McCarthy

  • Creatinine Kinetics and the Definition of Acute Kidney Injury

    Sushrut S. Waikar;Joseph V. Bonventre

  • Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury

    W.K. Han;S.S. Waikar;A. Johnson;R.A. Betensky

  • Diagnosis, epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury.

    Sushrut S. Waikar;Kathleen D. Liu;Glenn M. Chertow

  • Normalization of urinary biomarkers to creatinine during changes in glomerular filtration rate.

    Sushrut S. Waikar;Venkata S. Sabbisetti;Joseph V. Bonventre

  • Dialysis Dose and Intradialytic Hypotension: Results from the HEMO Study

    Finnian R. Mc Causland;Steven M. Brunelli;Sushrut S. Waikar

  • Validity of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification Codes for Acute Renal Failure

    Sushrut S. Waikar;Ron Wald;Glenn M. Chertow;Gary C. Curhan

  • Urinary biomarkers for sensitive and specific detection of acute kidney injury in humans

    Joseph V. Bonventre;Vishal S. Vaidya

  • Incidence, Outcomes, and Comparisons across Definitions of AKI in Hospitalized Individuals

    Xiaoxi Zeng;Gearoid M. McMahon;Steven M. Brunelli;David W. Bates;David W. Bates

  • Circulating Mitochondrial DNA in Patients in the ICU as a Marker of Mortality: Derivation and Validation

    Kiichi Nakahira;Sun-Young Kyung;Angela J. Rogers;Lee Gazourian

  • Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.

    Shruti Gupta;Wei Wang;Salim S. Hayek;Lili Chan

  • Blood Kidney Injury Molecule-1 Is a Biomarker of Acute and Chronic Kidney Injury and Predicts Progression to ESRD in Type I Diabetes

    Venkata S. Sabbisetti;Sushrut S. Waikar;Daniel J. Antoine;Adam Smiles

  • The single-cell transcriptomic landscape of early human diabetic nephropathy

    Parker C. Wilson;Haojia Wu;Yuhei Kirita;Kohei Uchimura

  • KDOQI US commentary on the 2012 KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury

    Paul M. Palevsky;Kathleen D. Liu;Patrick D. Brophy;Lakhmir S. Chawla

  • Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury Using Functional and Injury Biomarkers: Workgroup Statements from the Tenth Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative Consensus Conference

    Peter A McCullough;Andrew D Shaw;Michael Haase;Josee Bouchard

  • Single cell transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling redefine cellular heterogeneity in the adult human kidney.

    Yoshiharu Muto;Parker C. Wilson;Nicolas Ledru;Haojia Wu

  • Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury. Commentary

    C. R. Parikh;A. X. Garg;W. K. Han;S. S. Waikar

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph V. Bonventre
Joseph V. Bonventre Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harold I. Feldman
Harold I. Feldman University of Pennsylvania
Helmut G. Rennke
Helmut G. Rennke Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chi-yuan Hsu
Chi-yuan Hsu University of California, San Francisco
Chirag R. Parikh
Chirag R. Parikh Johns Hopkins University
Kathleen D. Liu
Kathleen D. Liu University of California, San Francisco
Glenn M. Chertow
Glenn M. Chertow Stanford University
Alan S. Go
Alan S. Go Kaiser Permanente
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Rebecca A. Betensky
Rebecca A. Betensky New York University

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