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Table 2 Presenting Complications of participants

From: Profile and outcome of patients with emergency complications of renal failure presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

Presenting Complications N = 146 %
Hyperkalemia (K+ > 5.5) 77 53.0
Uremic encephalopathy 66 45.0
Pulmonary edema 54 37.0
Metabolic acidosis (PH ≤ 7.2) 28 19.0
  1. Participants could have more than one complication. Therefore, adding the frequencies will give a larger number than N = 146
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BMC Emergency Medicine

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