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Acta médica Grupo Ángeles
Print version ISSN 1870-7203
Abstract
MARTINEZ MARTINEZ, Ivonne et al. Acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Ángeles Pedregal. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.2, pp.229-235. Epub Nov 23, 2021. ISSN 1870-7203. https://doi.org/10.35366/100447.
In December 2019 in China, the presence of SARS-CoV-2 was reported, which the WHO called COVID-19, its main manifestation is respiratory. It has been reported that up to 25% of patients with SARS-CoV-2 develop acute kidney injury and their mortality is 91.7%.
Objective:
Describe the characteristics of patients infected by COVID-19 and who developed kidney damage.
Material and methods:
Patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Hospital Ángeles Pedregal, who had a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, were studied. Renal function values were followed according to the laboratory values of our unit.
Results:
Our study consists of 22 cases, of which 10 (45%) did not present acute kidney injury, 12 (55%) with acute kidney injury, with the following distribution: four (18%) AKI I, five (23%) AKI II and three (14%) AKI III.
Conclusions:
The incidence of AKI was higher than that reported in the literature, with 55% of the cases, requiring hemodialysis in 33% of the cases. Mortality was 15.1% according to SAPS-3, which was notably lower than that reported in the literature.
Keywords : Acute kidney injury; COVID-19; ITU.
