| Autor: |
E. Lubart, T. Boguslavsky, G. Goltsman, S. Muhtaseb, A. Matveychuk |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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| Zdroj: |
Experimental Gerontology, Vol 179, Iss , Pp 112242- (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1873-6815 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.exger.2023.112242 |
| Popis: |
Community acquired pneumonia is associated with high mortality and health care costs, especially in old age. The clinical presentation of pneumonia in the elderly may be asymptomatic or atypical. One of the known complication is an acute kidney injury. The purpose of our study was to estimate the incidence of this complication in elderly patients hospitalized with pneumonia in our geriatric hospital.From a group of 180 elderly patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia 34.4 % developed acute kidney injury. In this group, 51.6 % of patients died compared to 14.4 % in the group of patients without acute kidney injury (p |
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