• J Trop Med Hyg · Oct 1989

    Cause and prognosis of acute renal failure in Kuwait: a 2-year prospective study.

    • G Abraham, R K Gupta, A Senthilselvan, J van der Meulen, and K V Johny.
    • Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Department of Medicine, Kuwait.
    • J Trop Med Hyg. 1989 Oct 1; 92 (5): 325-9.

    AbstractAt the Mubarak Al-Kabeer University Hospital of Kuwait (Arabian Gulf), 77 episodes of acute renal failure were collected prospectively over 2 years, yielding a mean annual incidence rate of 9.5/100,000 population. Forty-four episodes occurred in hospital, a rate of 1.3 per 1000 admissions. In this group, acute tubular necrosis was the commonest cause (27 episodes). Thirty-three episodes occurred in the community, acute tubular necrosis accounting for 11 episodes. In contrast to hospital-acquired renal failure there was a tendency for increased incidence of community-acquired renal failure in the summer months. A more striking observation was the lower mortality in the community-acquired form. The mortality was not related to severity of renal failure even within the group with acute tubular necrosis.

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