Conclusion: Six-month prognosis of critically ill surgical patients with severe acute renal failure is poor and mostly determined by the disease severity at ICU admission and by the frequency of surgical complications. Outcome had not improved over the study period, but after successful surgical and intensive care therapy, long-term survival appears to be reasonably good.
PMID: 19034876 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)