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===Causes in Alphabetical Order=== | ===Causes in Alphabetical Order=== | ||
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* [[Bacitracin]] | * [[Bacitracin]] | ||
* [[Bismuth]] | * [[Bismuth]] | ||
* [[Blood transfusion and complications | * [[Blood transfusion]] and complications | ||
* [[Boutonneuse fever]] | * [[Boutonneuse fever]] | ||
* [[Cadmium]] | * [[Cadmium]] | ||
* [[Capillary leak syndrome with monoclonal gammopathy]] | * [[Capillary leak syndrome]] with [[monoclonal gammopathy]] | ||
* [[Capreomycin | * [[Capreomycin]] | ||
* [[Carbon tetrachloride]] | * [[Carbon tetrachloride]] | ||
* [[Carmustine]] | * [[Carmustine]] | ||
* [[Cephaloridine]] | * [[Cephaloridine]] | ||
* [[Chloroform]] | * [[Chloroform]] | ||
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* [[Cisplatin]] | * [[Cisplatin]] | ||
* [[Clostridium tetani]] | * [[Clostridium tetani]] | ||
* [[Copper]] | * [[Copper]] | ||
* [[Crush syndrome]] | * [[Crush syndrome]] | ||
* [[Cyclophosphamide]] | * [[Cyclophosphamide]] | ||
* [[Cyclosporin]] | * [[Cyclosporin]] | ||
* [[Dehydration]] | * [[Dehydration]] | ||
* [[Dermatomyositis]] | * [[Dermatomyositis]] | ||
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* [[Erythroderma]] | * [[Erythroderma]] | ||
* [[Escherichia coli O157:H7]] | * [[Escherichia coli O157:H7]] | ||
* [[Gallium]] | |||
* [[Gallium | |||
* [[Gasoline]] | * [[Gasoline]] | ||
* [[Germanium]] | * [[Germanium]] | ||
* [[Glue | * [[Glue sniffing]] | ||
* [[Gold]] | * [[Gold]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Glycogen Storage Disease type V]] | ||
* [[Hantavirus]] | * [[Hantavirus]] | ||
* [[Heat stroke]] | * [[Heat stroke]] | ||
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* [[Hepatorenal syndrome]] | * [[Hepatorenal syndrome]] | ||
* [[Herbicide]] | * [[Herbicide]] | ||
* [[Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma]] | * [[Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma]] | ||
* [[Hyperuricemia]] | * [[Hyperuricemia]] | ||
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* [[Ifosfamide]] | * [[Ifosfamide]] | ||
* [[India tick typhus]] | * [[India tick typhus]] | ||
* [[Israeli spotted fever]] | * [[Israeli spotted fever]] | ||
* [[Kenya tick typhus]] | * [[Kenya tick typhus]] | ||
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* [[Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis]] | * [[Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis]] | ||
* [[Methanol]] | * [[Methanol]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Methemoglobinemia]] producing agents | ||
* [[Methicillin]] | * [[Methicillin]] | ||
* [[Methotrexate]] | * [[Methotrexate]] | ||
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* [[Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs]] | * [[Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs]] | ||
* [[Oxytetracycline]] | * [[Oxytetracycline]] | ||
* [[Paint | * [[Paint thinner]] | ||
* [[Para-amino salicylic acid]] | * [[Para-amino salicylic acid]] | ||
* [[Paraquat ochratoxin A]] | * [[Paraquat ochratoxin A]] | ||
* [[Perchloroethylene]] | * [[Perchloroethylene]] | ||
* [[Pesticide | * [[Pesticide]] | ||
* [[Platinum]] | * [[Platinum]] | ||
* [[Polymyxin]] | * [[Polymyxin]] | ||
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* [[Sulphinpyrazone]] | * [[Sulphinpyrazone]] | ||
* [[Sulphonamides]] | * [[Sulphonamides]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Perioperative mortality|Post-surgical complication]] | ||
* [[Thallium]] | * [[Thallium]] | ||
* [[Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura]] | * [[Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura]] | ||
* [[Toluene]] | * [[Toluene]] | ||
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* [[Trimethoprim]] | * [[Trimethoprim]] | ||
* [[Tumor lysis syndrome]] | * [[Tumor lysis syndrome]] | ||
* [[Uranium]] | * [[Uranium]] | ||
* [[Vancomycin]] | * [[Vancomycin]] |
Revision as of 01:35, 27 December 2012
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Overview
Glomerular filtration rate depends on multiple factors, particularly the renal blood flow. The pressure difference across the renal vasculature i.e the difference in pressure between the renal arterioles and venules is directly proportional to the GFR. Any decrease in renal blood flow, injury to the renal tubules or obstruction to the urinary tract outflow can cause decreased urine output.
Causes
Acute renal failure is usually categorised (as in the flowchart below) according to pre-renal, renal and post-renal causes.
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Pre-renal (compromise in the renal blood flow)
- Hypovolemia (decreased blood volume) -
- Shock, hemorrhage, burns, dehydration
- Fluid loss from diuretics use, diabetes mellitus, hypoadrenalism
- Gastrointestinal fluid loss: vomiting, surgical drainage, diarrhea
- Extra-vascular space sequestration: pancreatitis, hypoalbuminemia, peritonitis, trauma, burns
- Low cardiac output -
- Cardiac arrhthymia's
- Congestive heart failure: left ventricular failure, right ventricular failure
- Valvular disorders: severe aortic stenosis
- Severe pulmonary hypertension, massive pulmonary emobolism
- Systemic vasodilatation -
- Hepatorenal syndrome in which renal perfusion is compromised in liver failure (cirrhosis with ascites)
- Vascular problems -
- Atheroembolic disease
- Renal vein thrombosis (which can occur as a complication of the nephrotic syndrome)
- Renal hypoperfusion from cyclooxygenase inhibitors, ACE inhibitors
- Renal vasoconstriction from hypercalcemia, cyclosporine, tacrolimus and amphotericin B
- Hyperviscosity syndrome -
Renal (damage to the kidney itself)
- Diseases affecting the renal vasculature -
- Renal arterial obstruction: atherosclerosis, dissecting aneurysm, thrombosis, embolism
- Renal venous obstruction: thrombosis of the veins
- Diseases affecting the renal glomeruli -
- Glomerulonephritis, which may be due to a variety of causes, such as anti glomerular basement membrane disease/ Goodpasture's syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis or acute lupus nephritis with systemic lupus erythematosus
- Vasculitis
- Accelerated hypertension
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
- Acute tubular necrosis from
- Ischemia - Same causes as for pre-renal failure
- Toxins - Radiocontrast agents, aminoglycosides, cisplatin, acetaminophen, myoglobin from rhabdomyolysis, hemosiderin from hemolysis, light chain immunoglobulins in multiple myeloma, uric acid crystals, etc.
- Interstitial nephritis
- Infections: Acute pyelonephritis, cytomegalovirus infection, etc.
- Allergic: Penicillin's, sulphonamides, rifampin, diuretics, ACE inhibitors
- Infiltration: Malignancies (leukemias and lymphoma's)
- Graft rejection
Post-renal (obstructive causes in the urinary tract)
- Ureteric:
- Ureteric calculi
- Blood clot
- Sloughed renal pappilae
- External compression (retroperitoneal fibrosis)
- Bladder:
- Medication interfering with normal bladder emptying
- Neurogenic bladder
- Benign prostatic hypertrophy or prostate cancer.
- Urethal:
- Obstructed urinary catheter
- Urethral strictures
- Phimosis
- Posterior urethral valve
Complete list of Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order