About the Authors

Vin-Cent Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Vin-Cent Wu, Chun-Fu Lai

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, NSARF: National Taiwan University Hospital Study Group on Acute Renal Failure, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Fu Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Vin-Cent Wu, Chun-Fu Lai

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Chung Shiao

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary's Hospital, and Saint Mary's Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Yilan, Taiwan

Yu-Feng Lin

Affiliation Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Chen Wu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Ter Chao

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Fu-Chang Hu

Affiliation International Harvard Statistical Consulting Company, Taipei, Taiwan

Tao-Min Huang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yun-Lin Branch, Douliou City, Yun-Lin County, Taiwan

Yu-Chang Yeh

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Jung Tsai

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tze-Wah Kao

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yin-Yi Han

Affiliation Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chung Wu

Affiliation Section of Internal Medicine, Miao-Li Hospital, Department of Health, Miao-Li, Taiwan

Chun-Cheng Hou

Affiliation Department of Internal medicine , Min-Sheng Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Guang-Huar Young

Affiliation Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Je Ko

kowj@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tun-Jun Tsai

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kwan-Dun Wu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VCW. Performed the experiments: WJK CFL CCS GHY. Analyzed the data: YFL PCW FCH YYH WCW CCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTC TMH YCY IJT TWK. Wrote the paper: VCW WJK TJT KDW.