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The nonseptic group included eight patients with intra-abdominal disease (five with decompensated cirrhosis, three with acute pancreatitis), one patient with adrenal insufficiency, and four patients with unclear etiologies for hypotension and low SVR (idiopathic).
For example, patients with cirrhosis have a high severity of illness and poor prognosis when admitted to the ICU [ 19, 20, 21].
In general, ATN occurs more commonly in patients with certain types of underlying physiologic states or diseases (elderly, relative hypovolemia, diabetes, underlying kidney disease, heart disease, hepatic cirrhosis, certain autoimmune diseases and malignancies) as well as in certain clinical settings (sepsis, surgery, trauma, drug-induced).
The admitting diagnoses are summarized in Table 1. Eighteen patients had a history of cardiac disease, 10 werejaundiced in the preoperative period, 10 underwent preoperative biliaryinstrumentation, nine underwent preoperative biliary drainage, five had ahistory of cirrhosis and/or portal hypertension, four had a history of chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, and three had a history of viral hepatitis.
In addition to general ICU patients, APACHE II has also been studied in specific groups of patients such as those with trauma [ 6], sepsis [ 7], and cirrhosis [ 8].