Publications by authors named "Mariam Abu-Tair"
Emergencies in nephrology are mainly acute life-threatening situations for patients. Furthermore, one needs to consider constellations that are so damaging to the kidneys that the need for permanent dialysis develops within a short period of time. Acute kidney failure as an immediate consequence is categorized using the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) stages and is pathophysiologically subdivided into pre-, intra- and post-renal.
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- - This study evaluates how well the SOFA and SAPS-II scores predict mortality following cardiac arrests in ICU patients, analyzing data from a German university hospital's ICU over three years.
- - Findings show that while 29.8% of patients died during the ICU cardiac arrest, neither SOFA nor SAPS-II effectively predicted immediate mortality in these instances (P>0.05).
- - However, SAPS-II was better at predicting hospital and one-year mortality, suggesting a cutoff value of 43.5 for hospital mortality with good specificity and sensitivity, and 40.5 for one-year mortality, indicating its potential usefulness in clinical settings.
Very old people have a 1‑year mortality on hemodialysis, which in association with comorbidities and a catheter as dialysis access exceeds 30%; however, meta-analyses show that timely preparation and individually selected procedures decisively improve the morbidity and mortality even in old age. With increasing age and frailty the treatment targets shift away from prolongation of the lifespan to improvement of the quality of life. In this way the preference of home dialysis procedures, also as assisted peritoneal dialysis, can also achieve importance just as specialist nephrological treatment without renal replacement therapy with a palliative treatment target.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: It was hypothesized that in encephalitides with autoantibodies directed to CNS surface antigens an antibody-removing intervention might speed up recovery.
Methods: The outcome of autoimmune encephalitis in 19 patients with antibodies against surface antigens (leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 [LGI1], n = 3; contactin-associated protein-2 [CASPR2], n = 4; NMDA receptor [NMDAR], n = 7) and intracellular antigens (glutamic acid decarboxylase [GAD], n = 5) after immunoadsorption in addition to corticosteroid therapy was evaluated retrospectively. Modified Rankin scale (mRS) scores and data on seizures, memory, and antibody titers directly after immunoadsorption (early follow-up) and after a median of 4 months (late follow-up) were compiled.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of different treatment strategies on enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome.
Design: Multicentre retrospective case-control study.
Setting: 23 hospitals in northern Germany.