Abstract

Background and Objectives: Acute kidney injury is a common clinical condition encountered in our hospital. This study is an attempt to evaluate the clinical profile of acute kidney injury in 50 patients admitted to King George Hospital. 

Method: This prospective study was done at King George hospital , over a period of 8 months. This study included fifty patients with clinical and laboratory evidence of acute kidney injury in patients admitted to our hospital. 

Results: 32 male and 18 female patients with mean age of 48.01 years.  Oliguria and vomiting were common presenting symptoms.  Other common symptoms were fever, loss of appetite, jaundice and loose stools.

The etiological factors associated are malaria, septicemia and drug induced nephrotoxicity, Leptospirosis, Snakebite and Acute Gastroenteritis. Two patients had obstructive uropathy.

Conclusion:  We observed oliguria and vomiting were common clinical features.  Malaria was predominant etiological factor in our patients and falciparum malaria was more common than vivax malaria.  However all these patients were treated conservatively. In our study, 90% of patients were survived. 74% of patients were treated conservatively and 26% of patients underwent hemodialysis.