title: Acute renal failure in Indian and Black patients.
abstract: This preliminary study of 50 patients suffering from acute renal failure showed the aetiology to be medical in 30 patients, gynaecological in 9 patients, abstetric in 6 patients, and surgical in 5 patients. The commonest medical causes of acute renal failure were septicaemia and nephrotoxins (mainly from herbal medicines). The commonest gynaecological cause of acute renal failure was self-induced abortion. The relevant clinical and biochemical features are described. In spite of adequate dialysis and antibiotic therapy, the mortality was 34%. Adverse factors affecting prognosis were septicaemia, jaundice, the cause itself of the acute renal failure, and delay in beginning dialysis.
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000009:adverse effects; D000208:Acute Disease; D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D007565:Jaundice / Q000150:complications; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011247:Pregnancy; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000150:complications; D013019:South Africa