3. Acute renal failure (ARF) is a syndrome
characterized by rapid decline in glomerular
filtration rate (hours to days), retention of
nitrogenous waste products, and perturbation
of extracellular fluid volume and electrolyte
and acid-base homeostasis.
Acute renal failure (ARF)
4. ARF complicates approximately 5% of hospital
admissions and up to 30% of admissions to intensive
care units.
Oliguria (urine output 400 mL/d) is a frequent but not
invariable clinical feature (50%).
ARF is usually asymptomatic and diagnosed when
biochemical monitoring of hospitalized patients
reveals a recent increase in blood urea and
creatinine concentrations.
Acute renal failure (ARF)
5. Both terms indicate an accumulation of nitrogenous
wastes in blood
Uremia - syndrome of renal failure
Represents numerous consequences related to renal
failure
Azotemia - increased serum urea and creatinine levels
Acute renal failure (ARF)
Uremia Vs Azotemia
6. Acute renal failure (ARF)
For purposes of diagnosis and management are
conveniently divided into three categories:
(1)diseases that cause renal hypoperfusion without
compromising the integrity of renal parenchyma
(prerenal ARF, prerenal azotemia) (55%)
(2) diseases that directly involve renal parenchyma
(intrinsic renal ARF, renal azotemia) (40%)
(3)diseases associated with urinary tract obstruction
(postrenal ARF, postrenal azotemia) (5%).
15. Chronic renal disease (CRD) is a pathophysiologic
process with multiple etiologies, resulting in the
inexorable attrition of nephron number and function and
frequently leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
In turn, ESRD represents a clinical state or condition in
which there has been an irreversible loss of
endogenous renal function, of a degree sufficient to
render the patient permanently dependent upon renal
replacement therapy (dialysis or transplantation) in
order to avoid life-threatening uremia.
Uremia is the clinical and laboratory syndrome,
reflecting dysfunction of all organ systems as a result of
untreated or undertreated acute or chronic renal failure.
Definitions
16. • Diabetes: most common cause. Over 40%
cases are primarily to diabetes
CRF associated with other causes:
• Glomerulonephritis
• Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Hypertension related with renal vascular
disease (renal artery stenosis, atherosclerosis)
Common Underlying Causes of CRF
17. Consequences
Metabolic features:
Impairment in urinary concentration and dilution.
Osmotic diuresis due to high solute concentration
for each functioning nephron
Impairment of electrolytes and pH balance.
Retention of waste products of metabolism.
Decreased calcitriol synthesis.
Decreased erythropoietin synthesis.
21. The nephrotic syndrome is a clinical complex
characterized by a number of renal and
extrarenal features, the most prominent of
which are proteinuria of 3.5 g per 1.73 m2 per
24 h (in practice, 3.0 to 3.5 g per 24 h),
hypoalbuminemia, edema, hyperlipidemia and
hypercoagulation.
Definition
22. Pathophysiology
• Proteinuria: increased glomerular
permeability
• Hypoalbuminuria: decreased liver synthesis
• Oedema: primary salt and water retention
associated with reduced renal function, or
reduced plasma oncotic pressure.
• Hyperlipidaemia: increased apolipoprotein
liver synthesis
• Hypercoagulation: increased fibrinogen and
loss of antithrombin III
26. RENAL STONES (Nephrolithiasis)
Causes
1. A high concentration of a substance in the urine due
to:
- low urine volume
- high excretion rate
2. pH changes
- alkaline urine predisposes to Ca deposition (e.g.
infection)
- acid urine predisposes to uric acid deposition.
3. Stagnation, usually due to obstruction.
27. RENAL STONES (Nephrolithiasis)
Types of stones (or calculi)
1. Calcium - oxalate
- phosphate
2. Uric acid - in about 10% of gouty cases. May be
associated with low urinary pH due to inadequate buffer
production.
3. Rare forms
- cystine: cystinuria, a transport defect of dibasic amino
acids and cysteine
- xanthine: xanthine oxidase deficiency
-2,8 dihydroxyadenine: Adenine Phosphoribosyl
Transferase (APRT - a purine salvage enzyme) deficiency.
28. Calculi are only partly mineral; up to 60%
may consist of protein, the rest being
varying proportions of calcium, magnesium,
ammonium, phosphate, etc
RENAL STONES (Nephrolithiasis)
29. RENAL TUBULAR ACIDOSIS (RTA)
A group of disorders characterized by tubular
dysfunction, with normal or perhaps slightly
decreased glomerular function.
The picture is that of a normal anion gap metabolic
acidosis, in the presence of a normal or near-normal
plasma creatinine.
The urine pH is often inappropriately high in the face
of the systemic acidosis (but NOT always).
30. Due to inability of distal nephron to excrete H+.
The urine pH is inappropriately high (pH > 5.5), but
does not contain significant bicarbonate.
Associated with hypokalemia, nephrocalcinosis and
rickets.
There are genetic and acquired forms (e.g. heavy
metal toxicity).
Type 1 (distal) RTA
31. Due to defective proximal bicarbonate reabsorption.
The renal threshold for bicarbonate is decreased
(normal value 24 mmol/l).
Whenever the plasma bicarbonate level exceeds the
(lowered) renal threshold (e.g. 16 mmol/l), the urine
contains large amounts of bicarbonate and the urine pH
is inappropriately high (called renal bicarbonate
wasting).
However, if the plasma bicarbonate drops to the level of
renal threshold, then all filtered bicarbonate can be
reabsorbed, and the urine pH can be appropriately
acidic (< 5.5) since distal tubular H+ excretion is normal
Type 2 (proximal) RTA