Mortality and long term survival prognostic factors of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases admitted to an intensive care unit: a retrospective study.

Pedro Castro, Gerard Espinosa, Miguel Marcos, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Gandía, R Merchán, Ricard Cervera, José M. Nicolás

PubMed · 2012 · 31 citations · 0 references

Abstract

The long-term survival of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases admitted to the ICU was related with age, higher APACHE II score, previous chronic diseases, and an increase in corticosteroids dose when comparing with previous ICU admissions.