1. Outcomes of cancer patients admitted to intensive care units with severe acute kidney injury
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A Vianna, P Souza, Patrícia Machado Veiga de Carvalho Mello, Expedito Eustáquio Ribeiro da Silva, Ulysses V. A. Silva, Álvaro Réa-Neto, André Peretti Torelly, Jorge If Salluh, Gilberto Friedman, Marcio Soares, Suzana Margareth Lobo, Pedro Caruso, José Mario Meira Teles, and Marcelo de Oliveira Maia
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medicine.medical_specialty ,urogenital system ,Critically ill ,business.industry ,health care facilities, manpower, and services ,Acute kidney injury ,Cancer ,urologic and male genital diseases ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,medicine.disease ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Increased risk ,Intensive care ,Emergency medicine ,Poster Presentation ,medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Prospective cohort study ,business - Abstract
Critically ill cancer patients are at increased risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), but studies on these patients are scarce and were all single centered, conducted in specialized ICUs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics and outcomes in a prospective cohort of ICU cancer patients with AKI.
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- 2010