Overview
A condition when an abrupt reduction in kidneys’ ability to filter waste products occurs within a few hours or a few days. Symptoms include legs swelling and fatigue.
Symptoms
If you or someone you know is exhibiting symptoms of a Acute kidney injury, seek medical attention immediately
The condition could be asymptomatic. When symptoms are present, it includes:
- Swelling of the legs, ankles, and feet
- Fatigue
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Chest pain
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Causes
- Acute renal failure causes can be prerenal, renal, or postrenal.
– Pre-renal: When the blood flow to the kidney is impaired. The following can cause an impaired blood flow:
- Severe blood loss
- Heart disease
- Liver failure
- Some medications like aspirin and ibuprofen
- Overuse of NSAIDs
- Renal causes: damage to the kidney
- A blood clot formation in kidney
- Kidney infections
- Drugs like chemotherapy and antibiotics
- HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome)
- Glomerulonephritis – inflammation of the glomeruli which are the kidney filters
- Blood vessel inflammation or vasculitis
- Postrenal: urinary obstruction
- Diseases that cause blockage of urine include colon cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, and blood clots
– The risk factors include:
- Age
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Block in the blood vessels in the arm or legs
- Kidney disease
- Liver diseases
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