Renal Replacement Therapy in Children in the Developing World: Challenges and Outcome in a Tertiary Hospital in Southeast Nigeria

Table 2

Etiological diagnosis in patients who required RRT.

Etiological diagnosis	Number of patients who required RRT	Number of patients who accessed acute RRT	Number of patients who required further chronic RRT	Number of patients who accessed chronic RRT
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
AKI	41 (64.1%)	18 (28.1%)	4 (6.3%)	1 (1.6%)
End stage renal disease (ESRD) 2^0 chronic glomerulonephritide	12 (18.7%)	5 (7.8%)	5 (7.8%)	0 (0%)
Chronic kidney disease/ESRD 2^0 unidentifiable	8 (12.5%)	2 (3.1%)	2 (3.1%)	0 (0%)
ESRD 2^0 HIV nephropathy	3 (4.7%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Total	64 (100%)	25 (39.0%)	11 (17.2%)	1 (1.6%)