prevalence of acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis in isfahan, iran

Introduction: acute kidney injury (aki) is one of the most prevalent and extreme physio-pathological disorders in hospitalized patients, 20-40% of whom are hospitalized in the intensive care unit (icu). sepsis is the most commonplace reason for aki in intensive care patients, accounting for 50% of icu casesmethods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at isfahan university of medical sciences from 22 october 2016 to 22 october 2017. two hundred and thirty-two selected patients at al-zahra hospital in esfahan were enrolled in the study. patients were followed for 10 days to determine the short-term mortality rate. data were analyzed using a t-test and chi-squared test using spss software (ver. 16).results: in this study, 232 patients with sepsis were evaluated. their mean age (± standard deviation) was 69.9 (18.4) years. the mean age of patients with acute kidney injury (72.7 years) was significantly higher than the mean age of non-patients (non-aki) (66.6 years) (p-value= 0.012). however, the significant difference was not between the age groups, but the p-value was near the significant border. the mortality rate of patients (53.6%) was significantly higher than the non-patients (non-aki) (29.6%) (p-value<0.0001).conclusions: this study showed that the prevalence of aki was 57.3%, which was similar to the prevalence rate in other countries. a relationship was also demonstrated between aki and mortality rate and showed that aki increases the mortality rate.