Transient azotaemia is associated with a high risk of death in hospitalized patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1833-1839

  Uchino, Shigehiko ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^b   Bagshaw, Sean M ^c   Goldsmith, Donna ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Acute tubular necrosis; Epidemiology; Pre renal azotaemia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UREMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AZOTEMIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 77952997491     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp624     Document Type: Article

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