Acute Renal Failure

1. List the three categories of acute renal failure and give 2 separate disease or physiologic states that could cause each.

1. Prerenal ARF
      Hypovolemia
      Low cardiac output

2. Intrinsic ARF
      Renovascular obstruction
      Acute tubular necrosis

3. Postrenal ARF
      Obstruction of ureter (calculi)
      Prostatic hypertrophy



             

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Created on ... November 11, 2004