Skip to main content

Table 3 Aetiologies of acute kidney injury amongst groups of studied population

From: Causes and outcome of acute kidney injury amongst adults patients in two hospitals of different category in Cameroon; a 5 year retrospective comparative study

Aetiology

Total (%)

N = 349

DGH (%)

n = 217

BRH (%)

n = 132

p

Sepsis

201(57.59)

140(64.51)

61(46.21)

< 0.001

Volume depletion

100(28.65)

66(30.41)

34(25.75)

0.003

Obstruction

25(7.16)

8(3.69)

17(12.88)

0.717

Nephrotoxin

30(8.60)

11(5.07)

19(14.39)

0.717

Severe malaria

15(4.29)

4(1.84)

11(8.33)

0.011

Malignant hypertension

16(4.58)

5(2.30)

11(8.33)

0.960

Preeclampsia/eclampsia/HELLP syndrome

12(3.44)

9(4.15)

3(2.27)

0.019

Multiple myeloma

1(0.29)

0(0.00)

1(0.76)