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A positive fluid balance is associated with a worse outcome in patients with acute renal failure

Didier Payen1, Anne C de Pont2*, Yasser Sakr3, Claudia Spies4, Konrad Reinhart3, Jean L Vincent5 and the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) Investigators

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1 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, CHU Lariboisière, 2, rue Ambroise – Paré, F-75475 Paris Cedex 10, France

2 Adult Intensive Care Unit C3-327, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747 Jena, Germany

4 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, D-12200 Berlin, Germany

5 Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, 808, Route de Lennik, B-1070-Brussels, Belgium

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Critical Care 2008, 12:R74 doi:10.1186/cc6916


See related commentary by Bagshaw et al., http://ccforum.com/content/12/4/169

Published: 4 June 2008

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The additional file consists of a list of participants to the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) study in alphabetical order.

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