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Acute Renal Failure Causes

Aka: Acute Renal Failure Causes

Causes: Acute Tubular Necrosis
1. Renal Ischemia
  1. Major trauma or Hemorrhage
  2. Cardiac Arrest
  3. Interrupted renal blood flow during surgery
2. Chemical Injury from Nephrotoxic Drugs
3. Pigmenturia and Crystals
  1. Rhabdomyolysis
  2. Intravascular Hemolysis
  3. Calcium Phosphate precipitation
  4. Uric Acid
Causes: Blood Vessel Disease
1. Thromboembolism
2. Malignant Hypertension
3. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)
4. Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
5. Vasculitis
Causes: Acute Interstitial Nephritis
1. Drug Hypersensitivity
Causes: Glomerular Disease or Interstitial disease
1. Acute Glomerulonephritis
2. Acute inflammation renal interstitium (Drug Reaction)

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This page was written by Scott Moses, MD, last revised on 10/21/2007 and last published on 9/30/2012.

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