title: The evaluation of effects of demographic features, biochemical parameters, and cytokines on clinical outcomes in patients with acute renal failure.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effects of cytokines, biochemical parameters and demographic features on clinical outcomes of acute renal failure (ARF).
  
  
  METHODS
  59 patients with acute renal failure (28 men, 31 women) were enrolled to the study. Cytokines, biochemical parameters, and complete blood count were measured. Patients were divided into two groups: as survivors (group 1, n = 46) and nonsurvivors (group 2, n = 13).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age of patients were 52.3 +/- 17.9 years. 46 patients survived (77.9%) and 13 patients died (22.1%). There was a statistically significant relationship between IL-2R, IL-6, and TNF-alpha levels and mortality rates (p = 0.004, p = 0.016, p = 0.020, respectively) and between TC levels and mortality rates (p = 0.041). In multivariable logistic regression analysis, the effects of proinflammatory cytokines (IL-1beta, IL-2R, IL-6, TNFalpha, CRP, and ESR) on the clinical outcomes in ARF was observed to be statistically significant (r = 0.341, p = 0.005).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We realized that in totally demographic features (male gender, advanced age, poor nutritional status), biochemical parameters (TC, albumin, and hemoglobin) and cytokine levels (IL-2R, IL-6, TNF-alpha), CRP and ESR may be predictive factors for mortality in patients with ARF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Faculty of Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. akkadiroglu@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ali Kemal
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Kadiroglu
authors.forename: Dede
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sit
authors.forename: A Engin
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Atay
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kayabasi
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Altintas
authors.forename: M Emin
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000097:blood* / Q000401:mortality*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000032:analysis; D016207:Cytokines / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000097:blood; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000097:blood; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D007376:Interleukin-2; D015850:Interleukin-6; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D002097:C-Reactive Protein