To dialyze or not: The patient with metastatic cancer and AKI in the intensive care unit

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1507-1512

  Moss, Alvin H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ANASARCA; ANURIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACKACHE; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGENATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRACHEOSTOMY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA; URINE VOLUME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84866076276     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.02030212     Document Type: Article

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