Results: 41

Desempenho dos escores APACHE II e SOFA em pacientes com injúria renal aguda em uma unidade de terapia intensiva

Objetivo: Validar o desempenho dos escores APACHE II e SOFA para predizer a mortalidade em pacientes com injúria renal aguda em uma unidade de terapia intensiva. Métodos: Estudo observacional e retrospectivo realizado de janeiro de 2018 a setembro de 2020 em um hospital do Rio Grande do Sul. Foram incl...

National trends in age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of acute kidney injury in Peru

J. bras. nefrol; 42 (3), 2020
ABSTRACT Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common disorder that causes high healthcare costs. There are limited epidemiological studies of this disorder in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to describe trends in the age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of A...

Acute renal failure in COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation

Rev. chil. anest; 49 (6), 2020
COVID-19 Community acquired pneumonía is a recent and frequent cause of admission in European intensive care units. Currently, there are many open questions regarding the management and prognostic factors of these patients. Among them, its association with acute renal failure in patients on mechanical v...

Possible association between dysnatremias and mortality during hospitalization in patients undergoing acute hemodialysis: analysis from a Peruvian retrospective cohort

J. bras. nefrol; 41 (4), 2019
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the association between dysnatremias or dyschloremias and mortality during hospitalization in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) or chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing acute hemodialysis. Methods: We carried out a retrospective cohort study on adult patients und...

Risk factors and mortality in patients with sepsis, septic and non septic acute kidney injury in ICU

J. bras. nefrol; 41 (4), 2019
Abstract Acute kidney injury (AKI) has an incidence rate of 5-6% among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and sepsis is the most frequent etiology. Aims: To assess patients in the ICU that developed AKI, AKI on chronic kidney disease (CKD), and/or sepsis, and identify the risk factors and outcomes of th...

Mortalidad y fracaso renal agudo en pacientes con ventilación no invasiva
Mortality and acute kidney injury in patients with noninvasive ventilation

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (5), 2019
Se efectuó un estudio prospectivo observacional, obteniendo datos clínicos y analíticos de pacientes ingresados en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del Hospital Reina Sofía, que precisaron de ventilación mecánica no invasiva. El estudio se llevó a cabo desde el 1 de enero 2013 al 31 de diciembre d...

Acute kidney injury in newborns with necrotizing enterocolitis: risk factors and mortality

Abstract Background: Both necrotizing enterocolitis and acute kidney injury are tightly related conditions, which independently increase mortality in newborns. Necrotizing enterocolitis is an inflammatory disease with a systemic repercussion that leads to inflammatory kidney changes predisposing to rena...

An epidemiologic overview of acute kidney injury in intensive care units

SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent event among critically ill patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU) and represents a global public health problem, being imperative an interdisciplinary approach. OBJECTIV To investigate, through literature review, the AKI epidem...

Acute Kidney Injury Epidemiology in pediatrics

J. bras. nefrol; 41 (2), 2019
Abstract We performed a search in the MEDLINE database using the MeSH term: "Acute Kidney Injury", selecting the subtopic "Epidemiology", and applying age and year of publication filters. We also searched for the terms: "acute renal failure" and "epidemiology" "acute tubular necrosis" and "epidemiology" ...