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01.10.2004 | Clinical Commentary
Acute renal failure is not a “cute” renal failure!
verfasst von:
Wilfred Druml
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2004
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Excerpt
There is a widely held and an insistent believe within the intensive care community that, because renal function can easily and practically indefinitely be replaced by modern renal replacement modalities, acute renal failure (ARF) presents a rather harmless complication, and that survival is determined by the severity of the underlying disease process/accompanying complications but not by renal dysfunction per se. This opinion is in sharp contrast to evidence from several recent experimental and clinical investigations indicating that ARF presents a condition which exerts a fundamental impact on the course of disease, the evolution of associated complications and on prognosis, independently from the type and severity of the underlying disease. …