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Acute and Chronic Renal Failure

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Acute and Chronic Renal Failure

[Book]

by Michael Boulton-Jones.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1981

(108 pages)

Acute Renal Failure --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Acute Tubular Necrosis --; 3. Cortical Necrosis --; 4. Hepatorenal Syndrome --; 5. Structural Changes of Renal Vasculature and Glomerulonephritis Causing Renal Failure --; 6. Obstruction of the Renal Tract --; Chronic Renal Failure --; 7. Introduction --; 8. Causes --; 9. Clinical Features --; 10. Investigation --; 11. Treatment --; 12. Dialysis and Transplantation.

Renal function fails abruptly in a bewildering variety of clinical situations which lack any common clinical patterno This makes it impossible to define acute renal failure in the same way as heart failure or liver failureo Even oliguria, the commonest sign, is not invariably present. As a result, the detection of acute renal failure Table 1. Causes of acute renal failureo Acute tubular necrosis Ischaemic type Nephrotoxic type Cortical necrosi . - Hepatorenal syndrome Occlusion of main renal arteries Occlusion of arterioles Malignant hypertension Haemolytic uraemic syndrome Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Postpartum nephrosclerosis Acute glomerulonephritis Post-streptococcal 'Crescentic' nephritis } °do thO °th t ° dO Necrotizing glomerulitis I IOpa IC WI sys emlc Iseases Renal vein thrombosis Obstruction U ric acid crystals Stones Tumours-benign and malignant Fibrosis Strictures 2 Acute and Chronic Renal Failure (ARF) depends on biochemical tests, which are fortunately simple to perform and are commonly available. However, the clinician has to think of the possibility in order to test the diagnosis. Frequently, patients are admitted to a renal unit from medical, surgical or gynaecological wards where the development of ARF has gone unrecognized, either because the relevant investigation has not been performed or because the result has been overlooked. This happens because ARF occurs in patients with complex problems which themselves demand con siderable attention, and it is easy to overlook a comparatively rare, if important, complication.

Medicine.

Nephrology.

by Michael Boulton-Jones.

Michael Boulton-Jones

[Book]

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