title: Prognosis of acute renal failure in children: a multivariate analysis.
abstract: Various factors were analyzed in 80 consecutive children under 16 years who had acute renal failure (ARF), for various prognostic factors. Overall mortality was 42.5%, with significantly higher levels seen in hemolytic uremic syndrome (68%, P < 0.05) and associated with cardiac surgery (90.9%, P < 0.01). Anuria (67.6% vs. 43.5%, P < 0.05), need for dialysis (85.3% vs. 56.5%, P < 0.05), neurological complications (50% vs. 6.3%, P < 0.01), and respiratory complications (35.2% vs. 2.1%, P < 0.01) were significantly higher in nonsurvivors than survivors. Multiple regression analysis showed the presence of neurological and respiratory complications to be poor prognostic factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kher
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Singhal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gulati
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D013534:Survival; D016896:Treatment Outcome