作者
Valentin Fuhrmann, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Harald Herkner, Gottfried Heinz, Mariam Nikfardjam, Anja Bojic, Peter Schellongowski, Bernhard Angermayr, Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele, Christian Madl, Peter Schenk
发表日期
2011/8
期刊
Intensive care medicine
卷号
37
页码范围
1302-1310
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Purpose
Hypoxic hepatitis (HH) is a form of hepatic injury following arterial hypoxemia, ischemia, and passive congestion of the liver. We investigated the incidence and the prognostic implications of HH in the medical intensive care unit (ICU).
Methods
A total of 1,066 consecutive ICU admissions at three medical ICUs of a university hospital were included in this prospective cohort study. All patients were screened prospectively for the presence of HH according to established criteria. Independent risk factors of mortality in this cohort of critically ill patients were identified by a multivariate Poisson regression model.
Results
A total of 118 admissions (11%) had HH during their ICU stay. These patients had different baseline characteristics, longer median ICU stay (8 vs. 6 days, p < 0.001), and decreased ICU survival (43 vs …
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