Prevention and Treatment of Acute Renal Failure in Sepsis

摘要

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a common complication of sepsis and carries an ominous prognosis. Mortality was reported higher in patients with septic ARF (74.5%) than in those whose renal failure did not result from sepsis (45.2%) (1). Although the presence of multiple organ dysfunction and other comorbidities certainly contributes to the high mortality, ARF independently increases morbidity and mortality (2).