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Med."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Acute kidney disease (AKD) encompasses persistent or newly developing renal dysfunction beyond 7 days after surgery. Associations between perioperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) changes and AKD after cardiac surgery remain unclear. We identified NLR trajectories and examined their associations with overall, persistent, and delayed AKD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective, hypothesis-generating cohort study used the single-center INSPIRE database. Adults with NLR available in at least four of five perioperative windows were classified using group-based trajectory modeling. The primary outcome was AKD during postoperative days 8\u201390. Time-to-event, competing-risk, follow-up-weighted, early-AKI-stage, expanded-confounder, and medication-exposure sensitivity analyses were performed. Mortality and postoperative in-hospital hemodialysis\/continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) records were exploratory secondary outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Of 2,265 patients assigned to a trajectory, 1,975 had day-8\u201390 creatinine follow-up; 298 developed AKD. Three data-driven trajectories were identified: low-response (T1), intermediate peak-recovery (T2), and high persistent-response (T3). Adjusted odds of overall AKD were higher for T2 vs. T1 (OR: 2.02, 95% CI: 1.35\u20133.04) and T3 vs. T2 (OR: 1.42, 95% CI: 1.02\u20131.96), with the clearest gradient for persistent AKD. Kaplan\u2013Meier curves differed for overall and persistent AKD (both log-rank\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001), and Cox and Fine\u2013Gray analyses were concordant. Associations were broadly similar in sensitivity analyses, although adjustment for early AKI attenuated some adjacent contrasts. Ninety-day mortality and postoperative in-hospital hemodialysis\/CRRT records were most frequent in T3, but these exploratory endpoints were uncommon and susceptible to residual confounding.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Perioperative NLR trajectories were associated with creatinine-defined AKD after cardiac surgery, most clearly with persistent AKD. 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