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Frequency of Acute Kidney Injury in tetanus patients of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: A public hospital experience

Author(s) -

Faizia Naseem Ahmed,

Abid Hussain,

Fehmina Arif

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

pakistan journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1682-024X

pISSN - 1681-715X

DOI - 10.12669/pjms.342.14254

Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , tetanus , intensive care unit , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , medical emergency , virology , vaccination

Tetanus is a potentially fatal but preventable disease. Mortality is related to severity of the disease, cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal complications. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent and lethal complication of tetanus. The objective was to determine the frequency of AKI in tetanus patients managed in a public hospital.

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