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3371043

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with hepatic failure admitted to the medical ICU (MICU) generally have a poor prognosis. To determine if there were readily identifiable clinical factors associated with a high predictive value for outcome, we reviewed retrospectively the charts of 100 patients with serious liver disease admitted to the MICU. The overall mortality of the group was 64%. We found that Child's class, a need for mechanical ventilation, and an elevated serum creatinine had the greatest prognostic significance. Ninety-one percent of the patients receiving assisted ventilation, 89% of the patients in Child's class C, and 93% of the patients with creatinine values greater than 1.3 mg/dl died during their MICU admission. Furthermore, a multivariant regression analysis indicated that patients in Child's class C receiving mechanical ventilation who had an abnormal serum creatinine (greater than 1.3 mg/dl) during the first 72 h in the MICU had only a 2% survival rate.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0090-3493
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
671-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Prognosis of patients with cirrhosis and chronic liver disease admitted to the medical intensive care unit.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article