title: Poor prognosis of patients with intra-abdominal sepsis and hypouricemia.
abstract: With uric acid levels of 0.4 to 3.0 milligrams per cent, hypouricemia was noted in 17 patients with intra-abdominal sepsis. This was associated with a fivefold to sixteenfold increase in the urate clearance and uric acid to creatinine clearance ratios. The number of deaths in the 17 patients with hypouricemia is 14 versus 20 for the overall group of 111 patients studied. Two patients had a reversal of the serum uric acid, 24 hour urine uric acid output and uric acid to creatinine clearance ratio, with drainage of the intra-abdominal sepsis. Hypouricemia seems to indicate a poor prognosis in patients with intra-abdominal sepsis.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood; D000038:Abscess / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D003404:Creatinine / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000097:blood; D011379:Prognosis; D013369:Subphrenic Abscess / Q000097:blood; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000097:blood* / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid; D003404:Creatinine