Vitamin D serum levels in multiorgan failure critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Severe vitamin D deficiency in critically ill patients is linked to mortality. There are no scientific data regarding vitamin D status in critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapies.

Material and methods

We aimed to measure vitamin D serum levels in critically ill patients with multi-organ failure undergoing continuous renal replacement therapies. Vitamin D serum measurements in 12-hour time intervals were performed in 20 patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapies through continuous veno-venous haemodiafiltration (the study group). The results were then compared with the historical control group (20 patients without renal replacement therapy).

Results

In the control group the median vitamin D level initially d

SUBMITTER: Czarnik T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10183993 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature