| English |
| acute renal failure |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Variant |
ARF (acronym)
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| Definition |
Acute renal failure (ARF) is a clinical syndrome characterized by an abrupt decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and the accumulation of nitrogenos waste (urea nitrogen and creatinine ) The term ARF is used when the decrease in GFR occurs relatively rapidly, over the coures of days to weeks
The diagnosis of renal failure is usually made when the plasma concentration of urea or creatinine is measured and found to be elevated; it cannot reliably be made on clinical grounds alone. Acute, as opposed to chronic, renal failure is diagnosed when the decline in renal excretory function and increase in plasma urea and creatinine concentrations occur over hours or days
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| Definition source |
Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology
Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology
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| Context |
Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRTs) are widely used for critically ill patients with acute renal failure as part of their multiple organ failure syndrome in intensive care settings
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| Context source |
Kidney International (ingl12)
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| Subject field |
Medicine
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| Generic concept |
Renal failure
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| Coordinate concept |
Chronic renal failure
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| it |
Insufficienza renale acuta
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| Reliability code |
3
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