Crush Syndrome and Acute Renal Failure in the Marmara Earthquake

Crush syndrome patients after the Marmara earthquake.

BACKGROUND To assess the treatment and outcome of patients with crush injury sustained in the Marmara earthquake. METHODS Seven hundred eighty three patients were transferred to a university hospital and 25 of them were admitted to the intensive care unit. The medical records of 18 crush injury patients were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS The major associated injuries were in the lower e...

Dialysis for acute renal failure due to crush injuries after the Armenian earthquake.

Mechanical muscle-crush injury and acute muscle-crush compartment syndrome: with special reference to earthquake casualties.

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B4. 15334 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:450-3. An extensive muscle-crush injury culminating in a crush syndrome is often lethal unless treated actively and promptly. The causes of death in crush syndrome include hypovolaemic shock, hyperkalaemia, hypocalcaemia, metabolic acidosis, acute myoglobinuric rena...

Predictive Factors of Acute Renal Failure in the Neonates with Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Background: Preterm birth occurs in a large number of pregnancies, and its incidence has been reported to be on the rise. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in the premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). The present study aimed to determine the predictive factors, clinical courses, and outcomes of AKI in the neonates with the clinical and radiological manifes...

Acute renal failure in the nephrotic syndrome.

Sir, In their article in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation w1x, discussing the pathophysiology of acute renal failure in the nephrotic syndrome, Koomans et al. (p. 223) mention that obliteration of epithelial slit pores, as visualized by electron microscopy, is not correlated with the reduction in glomer-ular ®ltration rate (GFR) in humans. However, in a previous