[Acute renal failure following general and vascular surgery (author's transl)]

From 1967 to 1976 after 25851 operations for abdominal and vascular diseases acute renal failure was found in 123 cases. In 1353 patients with gastric surgery we observed acute renal failure in 33 (2,5%), after 1499 operations on the gallbladder and bileduct in 12 (0,8%) and after 725 oprations on the colon and rectum in 40 (5,5%) cases. In almost 80% renal failure was caused by septic shock, which is the reason of the high mortality rate of 88% in our patients. It should be emphasized that only prophylaxis and immediate therapy of septic complications can lower the rate of postoperative renal failure and its letal event.