Research Article
Prognostic Factors in Acute Methadone Toxicity: A 5-Year Study
Table 4
The relative frequency of complications.
| ā | Total
| Survivors | Nonsurvivors | value |
| Disseminated intravascular coagulation | 4 (1.2%) | 1 (0.3%) | 3 (10.7%) | 0.002 | Hepatic failure | 5 (1.5%) | 1 (0.3%) | 4 (14.3%) | <0.001 | Acute renal failure | 16 (4.9%) | 3 (1%) | 13 (46.4%) | <0.001 | Rhabdomyolysis | 15 (4.6%) | 7 (2.4%) | 8 (28.6%) | <0.001 | Pneumonia | 15 (4.6%) | 10 (3.4%) | 5 (17.9%) | 0.008 | ALI/ARDS | 5 (1.5%) | 1 (0.3%) | 4 (14.3%) | <0.001 | Sepsis | 2 (0.6%) | 0 | 2 (7.1%) | 0.007 |
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ALI: acute lung injury.
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