Chronic kidney disease prediction is an inexact science: The concept of “progressors” and “nonprogressors”

Figure 12 Serum creatinine trajectory, 2010-2012, with post-operative acute kidney injury precipitating acute yet irreversible end stage renal disease in March 2012 while on concurrent ACE inhibition, following minimally invasive aortic valve replacement in a then 73-year-old thin white woman. SORO-ESRD: Syndrome of rapid onset end-stage renal disease.