Renal profile associated with mortality by Covid 19 in patients in the intensive care unit in Latin America

Abstract

COVID 19 disease has had an inclement impact on all nations of the world, attacking and causing thousands of deaths, mainly in elderly people and those with underlying diseases such as renal failure, diabetes, arterial hypertension and pulmonary diseases. The purpose of this research was to generate suitable information, highlighting that there are no studies carried out in the locality, making available relevant and updated knowledge regarding useful analysis in the management of COVID 19 infection, having as research objective to analyze the renal profile associated to COVID 19 mortality in ICU patients at Latin American level. A systematic bibliographic research was carried out, the information of interest was collected from scientific literature related to the research topic. Mortality due to cases of COVID 19 associated with renal injury was relevant, reaching high figures in different ages and conditions. The main patients affected were those with previous diseases that weakened their immune system. Renal failure can occur at any stage of viral infection, early diagnosis are essential components of medical care and the increase of nitrogen products, such as urea and creatinine, which are elevated in the infection, were considered as a cause of mortality. Acute renal failure was directly related to worse prognosis and mortality, the predominant gender was male, in the age range of 60 to 70 years with pathological history.