"acute renal failure: a prospective four months study at shariati hospital "

to delineate the incidence , epidemiology, etiology, and prognosis of acute renal failure (arf) and to compaed the findings with international data, we prospectively studied 2360 patients, admitted at shariati hospital during a four months period ending on jan, 6, 1996. one hundred and twenty-four (5.1%) patients meeting arf crieteria were encountered. the most common cause of arf was prerenal azotemia, nephrotoxins were the second common cause, and primary renal disease were the third.in-hospital mortality was 5.5% and 31% of this mortality was related to arf. poor prognostic factors were oliguria, maximum serum ceratinine (cr) level, rise of cr during admission, multiorgan failure,and sepsis.