[Pathological anatomy of the myorenal syndrome in the light of current methods of treatment].

Clinical and morphologic analysis of material from 39 patients who died from the myorenal syndrome is given. It is shown that during last 10 years the mortality rate from this syndrome is markedly reduced from 55 to 14% due to new active methods of detoxication. The main morphologic manifestations of the syndrome remain the skeletal muscles necrosis and hemoglobinuric nephrosis leading to acute renal failure. The author describes morphologic, histochemical and electron microscopic features of these lesions. It is noted also that progress in the treatment changed the whole structure of mortality, and the role of new complications, mainly septicemia, was increased. The sources of septicemia are both skin and muscles lesions and catheters and shunts used in modern methods of treatment.