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Characteristics of patients with AKI and ESRF |
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| Factor |
Advanced AKI without RRT (n = 935) |
AKI on RRT (n = 1,847) |
ESRF (n = 797) |
P (AKI on RRT versus ESRF) |
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| Male sex |
67.2% |
70.6% |
59.6% |
0.0002 |
| Mean age ± SD (years) |
60.1 ± 15.7 |
63.1 ± 15.4 |
55.3 ± 16.4 |
0.062 |
| SOFA score on admission to ICU (median [range]) |
7 (0 to 17) |
10 (1 to 22) |
8 (1 to 8) |
0.11 |
| Organ failure on admission to ICUa (n; median [range]) |
1 (0 to 4) |
2 (0 to 6) |
0 (0 to 4) |
<0.0001 |
| Nonsurgical admission |
65.2% |
69% |
54.8% |
<0.0001 |
| Emergency surgery |
17.1% |
13.2% |
13.9% |
0.64 |
| Maximum organ failures in ICUa (n; median [range]) |
1 (0 to 6) |
2 (0 to 6) |
0 (0 to 5) |
<0.0001 |
| Mechanical ventilation |
78% |
91.3% |
60.9% |
<0.0001 |
| Haemoglobin ≤ 9 g/dl on admission to ICU |
20.6% |
26.9% |
42.7% |
<0.0001 |
| Cardiac surgery |
10.2% |
12.8% |
11.4% |
0.935 |
| ICU mortality |
40.6% |
54.1% |
20.8% |
<0.0001 |
| Hospital mortality |
50.5% |
61.6% |
34.5% |
<0.0001 |
| Length of stay in ICU (days; median [range]) |
7 (1 to 270) |
10 (1 to 219) |
2 (1 to 64) |
<0.0001 |
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aExcluding renal failure. AKI, acute kidney injury; ESRF, end-stage renal failure; ICU, intensive care unit; OR = odds ratio; RRT, renal replacement therapy; SD, standard deviation; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment. | ||||
Ostermann et al. Critical Care 2008 12:432 doi:10.1186/cc7085 |
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