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Table 4 Complications after treatment and outcome in the study participants

From: Conservative therapy is associated with worse clinical features and biochemical derangements than renal replacement therapy: a retrospective study in Kumasi, Ghana

 

All patients

Renal replacement therapy group

Conservative group

p-value

 

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

 

Complications

    

Anaemia

218(57.1)

34(55.7)

184(57.3)

< 0.001

Fluid Overload

52(13.6)

11(18.0)

41(12.8)

< 0.001

Hyperkalaemia

40(10.5)

3(4.9)

37(11.5)

< 0.001

Pulmonary oedema

29(7.6)

5(8.2)

24(6.3)

< 0.001

Uncontrolled hypertension

24(6.3)

6(9.8)

18(5.6)

0.014

Uremic Gastritis

11(2.9)

1(1.6)

10(3.1)

0.007

Uremic encephalopathy

7(1.8)

1(1.6)

6(1.9)

0.059

Acute rejection

1(0.3)

0(0.0)

1(0.3)

-

Outcome

    

Dead

8(2.1)

6(9.8)

2(0.6)

0.289

Alive

30(7.3)

12(19.7)

18(5.6)

0.273

Lost to follow-up

337(88.2)

41(67.2)

296(92.2)

< 0.001

Others

7(1.8)

2(3.3)

5(1.6)

0.045