Clinical Study
Long-Term Outcome of Patients Followed by Nephrologists after an Acute Tubular Necrosis Episode
Table 1
Characteristics of the survivor patients after acute tubular necrosis episode.
| | Patients | n = 212 |
| | Male gender (%) | 133 (62.7) | | Age (years) | 59.2 (48–71) | | ATN-ISS | 0.33 (0.18–0.43) | | Previous chronic renal disease (%) | 83 (39,1) | | Hypertension (%) | 73 (34.4) | | Cardio-vascular disease (%) | 142 (66.9) | | Diabetes (%) | 73 (34.4) | | ATN etiology (%) | | | (i) Ischaemic | 57 (26.9) | | (ii) Nephrotoxic | 46 (21.7) | | (iii) Mix | 50 (23.6) | | (iv) Septic | 59 (27.8) | | In-hospital | | | Type of admission (%) | | | (i) Surgical | 54 (25.5) | | (ii) No surgical | 158 (74.5) | | ICU admission (%) | 64 (30.2) | | ATN severity (%) | | | (i) stage I | 55 (25.9) | | (ii) stage II | 48 (22.6) | | (iii) stage III | 109 (51.5) | | SCr peak (mg/dL) | 5.1 (2.6–6.7) | | Dialysis (%) | 50 (23.5) | | Recovery of renal function (%) | | | (i) Total | 78 (36.7) | | (ii) Partial | 132 (62.4) | | (iii) Absence | 2 (0.9) | | Followup | | | Time of followup (months) | 24.4 (9–39) | | MDRD (mL/min) | | | First evaluation | 52 ± 11 | | After 12 months | 58.1 ± 17.2 | | After 36 months | 57 ± 15.2 | | After 60 months | 57.2 ± 14.2 | | Need for late dialysis (%) | 10 (4.7) | | Mortality (%) | 52 (24.5) | | Lost of follow-up | 41 (19.3) |
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ATN-ISS: acute tubular necrosis-individual severity score; data showed in %, means ± sd or median (q1–q3).
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