Population
77 patients with acute renal failure of varying cause
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Cohort
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Pericarditis in acute renal failure is associated with high mortality similar to the overall population; leaves open whether it identifies a high-risk subset warranting specific intervention.
Uremic pericarditis occurs in approximately 18% of patients with acute renal failure and is associated with high mortality, though similar to the overall acute renal failure population.
Warren E. C. Wacker (1954) studied this question.
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