The art of the general practitioner is not dead-it is carried on in the practice of the
nephrologist. Renal disease and its consequences overlap many of the medical and …

Perhaps all clinicians, regardless of their specialties, have been confronted with sudden
failure of urine formation in a case in which, in all probability, the patient is ill from some …

Acute renal failure (ARF) in the critical care setting is defined as the abrupt decline in
glomerular filtration rate (GFR) resulting from ischemic or toxic injury to the kidney. ARF is …

Acute renal failure may be defined as relatively sudden, rapidly progressive loss of renal
function, resulting in the uremic state with all its clinical and biochemical manifestations …

In the broad overview, there have really been no dramatic changes in either our knowledge
or the therapy of acute renal failure, with few exceptions, in the past five years. I note that the …

Acurre ENAI. insufficiency is a final common pathway for diverse forms of constitutional
insult. This disease is usually associated with trauma, shock, transfusion reaction, or various …

Acute potentially reversible renal failure (1, 2) can appear in patients in any branch of
medicine, from the psychiatrically ill to women during and after pregnancy; thus it is a …

This discussion was selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of
Medicine, University of California, SanFrancisco. Taken from a transcription, it has been …

The subject of acute renal failure is an important one. It is important because this condition
may be one of the most critical with which the physiн cian must deal and yet it is also …

Preview The conservative medical treatment that is so important in patients with acute renal
failure often can be provided by a primary care physician. Drs Sirmon and Kirkpatrick …