Patients With Vasculitides Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit: Implications From a Single-Center Retrospective Study.

Yael HavivOra ShovmanNicola Luigi BragazziKassem SharifYarden YavneYehuda ShoenfeldHoward AmitalAbdulla Watad

Published in: Journal of intensive care medicine (2017)

Our study confirms the high mortality rate among patients with vasculitides who require ICU care as well as the roles of infection and disease flare-up as causes for admission. An elevated SOFA score was found to be predictive of mortality.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular events
healthcare
emergency department
intensive care unit
risk factors
palliative care
coronary artery disease
pain management