[Clinical aspects and treatment of acute kidney failure]

It is reported on haemodialyses which were carried out in the period from 1959--1978 in 157 patients with acute renal failure. Here in 25 cases developed exogenic intoxications. The surgically conditioned cases of acute renal failure were subdivided into 7 groups according to the basic diseases. The lethality of about 47% significantly differs in the individual surgical noxes from the data of literature. It is dealth with the general principles of treatment in these acute pictures of disease, which 1. consist in a basic treatment--maintenance of vital functions--and 2. in an elimination of the damaging noxe--elimination of the exogenic poison and removal of the surgical basic diseases and tiding over of the temporary deficiency of the renal function. Of the deceased patients about 16% came ad exitum in uraemia. The others died of the basic disease which could not be controlled. Thus the prognosis depends on the prognosis of the basic disease. In the intoxications the prognosis mainly depends on the dialysability and the quantity of the poison as well as on the time interval between intake of poison and beginning of the treatment.