The document provides an overview of the differential diagnosis of acute renal failure. It discusses prerenal, intrinsic renal, and postrenal causes of acute renal failure. Prerenal causes include volume depletion, advanced liver disease, congestive heart failure, and renal arterial disease. Intrinsic renal causes include tubular diseases, interstitial diseases, glomerular diseases, and vascula diseases. Postrenal causes involve urinary obstruction.