[Acute kidney insufficiency in an alcoholic patient with liver cirrhosis].

We report on a 67-year-old patient who was hospitalized because of worsening of general condition, generalized edema and ascites with decompensated ethylic cirrhosis of the liver. On hospital admission renal failure was present which had developed within 5 months. In spite of intensive treatment with diuretics and repeated ascites punctures, fluid repletion reappeared repeatedly. Renal function remained stable for the first 10 days but worsened thereafter rapidly.