Difference between revisions of "Renal failure"

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*[[End-stage kidney]].
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==References==
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[[Category:Genitourinary pathology]]

Revision as of 17:31, 18 June 2014

Renal failure, also kidney failure, is dysfunction of the kidneys.

It can be subdivided in a number of different ways.

Acutity

  • Acute renal failure (ARF).
  • Chronic renal failure (CRF).

Acute renal failure

Chronic renal failure

Note:

Anatomical cause

Renal failure 101:

  • Pre-renal.
  • Renal.
  • Post-renal.

Pre-renal

Renal

Post-renal

See also

References

  1. Saric M, Kronzon I (November 2011). "Cholesterol embolization syndrome". Curr. Opin. Cardiol. 26 (6): 472–9. doi:10.1097/HCO.0b013e32834b7fdd. PMID 21993354.