Source: Lancet  |  Posted 9 years ago

Patients with acute renal failure have good survival and quality of life after discharge and should be treated aggressively in the intensive care unit, researchers report.

There is a lack of data on the prognosis of acute real failure patients after hospital discharge, researchers write. Their study shows that half of those who survive their stay in hospital live for more than five years, with over three quarters rating their current health status as good to excellent.

Admission to hospital with acute renal failure is associated with a very high in-hospital mortality rate -- 69 per cent of the 977 patients with acute renal failure who needed continuous renal replacement therapies died in hospital, write the researchers, from the department of nephrology and medical biometrics, Humboldt University, Campus Charit