title: [Acute kidney failure in Morocco].
abstract: During the February 1983-February 1988 period, 172 patients (113 men and 59 women, mean age 36 years) were admitted to the Ibn-Rochd hospital for acute renal failure (ARF). Oliguria or anuria were present on admission in 131 patients (76.2 per cent). ARF occurred in a medical context in more than two thirds of the cases (73.8 per cent) post-operatively or in a surgical context in 11 per cent in an obstetrical context, notably post-partum, in 15 per cent. The causes of ARF were varied: prerenal in 12 cases, obstructive in 15 cases and renal parenchymal in 141 cases; in the remaining 4 patients no cause could be found. Acute tubular necrosis was the most frequent lesion (104 cases) and it was due to infection in 72 per cent of the cases; acute glomerular lesions were present in 27 patients. In the 108 patients treated by haemodialysis, 4 sessions on average were required for each patient; the main duration of peritoneal dialysis was 6 days. The most frequent complication observed was infection. The mortality rate was 21 per cent (36 deaths).
authors.affiliation: Service de Néphrologie-Hémodialyse, CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bourquia
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ramdani
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Jabrane
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alaoui
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zaid
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009018:Morocco; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: L'insuffisance rénale aiguë au Maroc.