Open AccessSudden death in chronic dialysis patients
Author(s) -
Kazuhisa Takeda,
Atsumi Harada,
Shinichi Okuda,
Satoshi Fujimi,
Yeong Seok Oh,
Fumiyuki Hattori,
K. Motomura,
Hiroyuki HIRAKATA,
Makoto Fujishima
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/12.5.952
Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , hemodialysis , intensive care medicine , kidney disease , sudden death
Causes of sudden death were investigated in 113 chronic dialysis patients who died during the 10-year period from July 1979 to January 1989; postmortem examination was performed on 93 of the cases (autopsy rate; 82.3%). Sudden death was regarded as death 24 h after the onset of acute illness in patients without any restriction in their daily activities. There were 35 sudden death cases out of the 93 autopsied chronic dialysis patients. We analysed the causes of sudden death for all chronic dialysis patients and for those who died suddenly.
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