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. 2008 Oct 10;12(5):R124. doi: 10.1186/cc7032

Table 4.

Early and late acute kidney injury: characteristics, multiple organ failure, and sepsis

Early AKI (n = 17) Late AKI (n = 14) P value
Age, years 48.9 (39.7 to 58.1) 62.6 (49.7 to 75.5) 0.07
Total body surface area, percentage burned 53.3 (41.0 to 65.6) 39.8 (26.4 to 53.2) 0.13
Full thickness burns, percentage 39.4 (28.1 to 50.7) 23.0 (12.2 to 33.8) 0.04
Multiple organ failure 14 10 0.47
Sepsis 15 12 0.83
Lowest value of MAP for days 1–3, mm Hg 57.5 (54.9 to 60.2) 59.1 (54.3 to 63.9) 0.53
Plasma myoglobin for days 1–2, μg/L 1,167 (-484 to 2,820) 220 (103 to 337) 0.24
Mechanical ventilation 17 13 -
Length of stay, days 45.7 (27.8 to 63.6) 60.6 (27.9 to 93.4) 0.37

Data are mean (95% confidence interval) or number of patients. Early acute kidney injury (AKI) is defined as when creatinine reached the level for Risk within the first 7 days; late AKI occurred between days 8 and 60. Multiple organ failure is defined as 3 to 4 score points in two or more organ dimensions of the sequential organ failure assessment score. (Contingency table, Pearson chi-square test for categorical variables, and Student t test for continuous data.) MAP, mean arterial pressure.