Acute kidney injury in newborn undergo open heart surgery in the first hours of life using autologous umbilical cord blood

Newborns with congenital heart diseases undergo open heart surgery have a tendency to develop acute kidney injury. The utilization of umbilical cord blood during by-pass leads to significant lower hematocrit level. Despite that, the inflammation level is lower because of absence of donor‘s blood components. The comparison of two groups didn‘t find significant difference in acute kidney injury appearance. We consider this fact to be one more prove of safety of umbilical cord utilization.