
Prognostic Index for Predicting the Probability of Surviving Postoperative Acute Renal Failure
Purpose: | To determine the chance of survival for a patient developing acute renal failure postoperatively. |
Specialty: | Nephrology Clinical Laboratory |
Objective: | severity, prognosis, stage |
ICD-10: | N17 |
Description: | Acute renal failure may develop after surgery and has a relatively high mortality rate. Cioffi et al developed a prognostic index for patients developing postoperative acute renal failure. The study was performed at the University of Vermont. |
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