Acute kidney insufficiency in an alcoholic patient with liver cirrhosis
Räz, H.R.; Moch, H.; Wagner, P.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 126(30): 1306-1313
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 8765771 Document Number: 460504
We report on a 67-year-old patient who was hospitalized because of worsening of general condition, generalized edema and ascites with decompensated ethylic cirrhosis of the liver. On hospital admission renal failure was present which had developed within 5 months. In spite of intensive treatment with diuretics and repeated ascites punctures, fluid repletion reappeared repeatedly. Renal function remained stable for the first 10 days but worsened thereafter rapidly.