Renal Failure

Definition: Renal Failure

Renal Failure

Noun

1. Inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance.

Specialty Definitions: Renal Failure

Domain	Definitions
Health	Progressive renal insufficiency and uremia, due to irreversible and progressive renal glomerular tubular or interstitial disease. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Renal failure

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Renal failure is when the kidneys fail to function properly. It can broadly be divided into two categories - acute renal failure and chronic renal failure.

Causes

There are many causes of renal failure and a good method of organizing them is to divide them into the pre-renal, renal and post-renal causes of renal failure.

The most common prerenal cause of acute renal failure is hypotension or decreased blood flow, usually from shock or dehydration/fluid loss. Other causes include vascular problems such as renal artery stenosis and thrombus.

Damage to the kidney parenchyma itself can cause renal failure. This would include such things as infection, toxins and autoimmune diseases.

Postrenal problems affecting the flow of urine beyond the kidneys can result in a postrenal cause of renal failure. Thus, any disease affecting the ureters, bladder or urethra can lead to this.

Treatment

Acute renal failure is usually reversible if treated promptly and appropriately. Dialysis may be required temporarily. The kidneys will recover with resumption of adequate renal perfusion with fluid resuscitation. The underlying cause should also be investigated and treated.

Chronic renal failure, on the other hand, is not reversible. If the renal function deteriorates enough, the patient may well end up requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant on a long term basis.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Renal failure."

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Synonym: Renal Failure

Synonym: kidney failure (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Renal Failure

English words defined with "renal failure": acute kidney failure, acute renal failure ♦ chronic kidney failure, chronic pyelonephritis, chronic renal failure ♦ nephroangiosclerosis, nephrosclerosis ♦ transfusion reaction. (references)

Specialty definitions using "renal failure": acute tubular, Aleutian Mink Disease ♦ Benzolamide, beta 2-Microglobulin ♦ Enalaprilat ♦ Fabry Disease ♦ Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Hepatorenal Syndrome, Hyperoxaluria, Primary ♦ Kidney Failure, Chronic, Kidney Tubular Necrosis, Acute ♦ membranoproliferative ♦ polycystic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Renal Failure

Domain	Title
Books	Cardiovascular Disease in End-Stage Renal Failure (reference) Mechanisms and Clinical Management of Chronic Renal Failure (reference) Prevention of Progressive Chronic Renal Failure (Oxford Monographs on Clinical Nephrology, No 1) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Renal Failure

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Death is usually caused by renal failure or infection. (references)
		This rapid loss of kidney function is called acute renal failure (ARF). (references)
		Chronic renal failure can result from endocarditis, but is not inevitable. (references)
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Expressions: Renal Failure

Expressions using "renal failure": acute renal failure ♦ chronic renal failure. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Renal Failure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
renal failure	433
chronic renal failure	103
acute renal failure	83
renal failure symptom	40
end stage renal failure	29
feline renal failure	28
feline chronic renal failure	21
renal failure cause	6
renal failure treatment	3
renal failure information	2
acute renal failure symptom	2
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Modern Translations: Renal Failure

Language		Translations for "renal failure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hebrew		אי ספיקת כליות. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腎不全 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じ�"ふぜ�". (various references)

Pig Latin		enalray ailurefay

Spanish		insuficiencia renal crónica (Chronic Renal Failure, chronic renal insufficiency). (various references)
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Anagrams: Renal Failure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-i-l-l-n-r-r-u"
	-4 letters: flanerie, fraulein, funereal, nearlier, rainfall, refallen, unfairer.
	-5 letters: airfare, aliener, allurer, earlier, failure, fernier, ferrule, ferulae, filaree, flaneur, frailer, frenula, friller, fueller, funeral, leafier, learier, learner, rallier, ralline, ranulae, refiner, refrain, relearn.
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