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La Tunisie médicale · Apr 2003
[Incidence and prognosis of acute renal failure in the intensive care unit. Retrospective study of 216 cases].
- Mabrouk Bahloul, Chokri Ben Hamida, Hassan Damak, Hatem Kallel, Hichem Ksibi, Noureddine Rekik, Hedi Chelly, and Mounir Bouaziz.
- Service de réanimation médicale, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax, Tunisie.
- Tunis Med. 2003 Apr 1;81(4):250-7.
UnlabelledOur aims to determine the incidence, the causes, the nature and the prognosis of acute renal failure (ARF) in an intensive care unit of Habib Bourguiba's university hospital (Sfax Tunisia).Patients And MethodsWe retrospectively included all patients having ARF during a period of one year. Two hundred sixteen patients developed ARF (17%) During the period of study. The causes of ARF were multiple, and dominated by hypovolemia (47% of cases) The Acute renal failure (ARF) is a frequent pathology. It is essentially observed in old patients. The causes are often multiple. The mortality is high and the best treatment remains prophylactic.
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