User:T Prajwal bhat (Tpbhat )

A POST ON ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY (AKI) Acute kidney injury also referred as Acute renal failure ,describes a situation when there is a sudden and often reversible loss of renal function, which develops over days or weeks and is usually accompanied by a reduction of urine volume .In uncomplicated AKI, suchas due to haemorrhage or drugs ,mortality is low.In AKI association with serious infection and multiple organ failure ,mortality is 50-70 percentage and the outcome is usually determined by severity of underlying disorder and other complications,rather than by renal failure itself. CAUSES FOR AKI PRE -RENAL Impaired perfusion:
 * Cardiac failure
 * Sepsis
 * Blood loss
 * Dehydration
 * Vascular occlusion

RENAL Glomerulonephritis Small vessel vasculitis Acute tubular necrosis INTERSTETIAL NEPHRITIS
 * Drugs
 * Toxins
 * Prolonged hypotension
 * Drugs
 * Toxins
 * Inflammatory disease
 * Infection

POST -RENAL
 * Urinary calculi
 * Retroperitoneal fibrosis
 * Benign prostatic enlargement
 * Prostate cancer
 * Cervical cancer
 * Urethral stricture
 * Meatal stenosis/phimosis..........................................