ALB and acute kidney injury: To address any selection bias, we derived a propensity score predicting the likelihood to receive albumin and matched 202 cases to 202 controls with a similar risk profile using the following covariates: age, sex, BMI, systolic BP, comorbidities, causes of AKI, ascites drainage, white blood cells, hemoglobin, total bilirubin, total cholesterol, creatinine, aspartate aminotransferase, and alanine aminotransferase.