title: [Isolated acute renal failure is not associated to an increase in mortality of patients in intensive care units].
abstract: This study assess the prognostic factors increasing mortality of patients with acute renal failure in intensive care units. The study included 923 patients admitted to the intensive care unit over a period of two years. Acute renal failure was defined by the following criteria, a blood urea concentration of more than 30 mmol/l, a serum creatinine concentration of more than 180 micromol/l or creatinine clearance less than 50 ml/min. Patients were divided into two groups survivors (V) and dead patients (D). 95 patients presented acute renal failure with a mortality rate of 57.9%. There was no difference between the two groups. There was no difference between the two groups. Patients in intensive care units with only acute renal failure doesn't have a worse prognosis, but the association to two or more other organ dysfunction's, mechanical ventilation of more that 12 days, sepsis or Glasgow coma scale less than 8 are predictive of mortality.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Anesthésie Réanimation CHU Mongi Slim, La Marsa, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Walid
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Miraoui
authors.forename: M'hamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mebazaa
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Frikha
authors.forename: Mohamed Salah
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ben Ammar
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D014508:Urea / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014508:Urea; D003404:Creatinine