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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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