Survial from acute renal failure with and without multiple organ dysfunction
Open Access
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 56 (654), 244-247
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.56.654.244
Abstract
Summary: A 10-year retrospective analysis has been carried out of 114 patients dialysed for acute renal failure. Fifty-eight patients, predominantly suffering from multiple organ failure, required treatment in an Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU); 56 less severely ill patients were treated in a Renal Unit. Overall survival in the former group was 36% and in the latter group 63%. In the first 5 years of the study, survival in the ITU patients was 31% and in the second 5 years, was 38% in spite of a trend towards increased severity of illness. These results challenge the view that haemodialysis is rarely worth-while in patients with multiple organ failure, and suggest that current management techniques have improved prognosis. The most important adverse factors continue to be old age, sepsis and gastrointestinal disease.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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