Kidney failure is a condition in which the kidneys are unable to perform their duties of excretion of waste products, and the accumulation of such waste products leads to deleterious effects on the various organ systems in the body.
If an individual develops kidney failure, without intervention, he or she may not survive. The patient may require dialysis or transplantation to replace the function of the damaged kidneys.When a patient has an abnormality either of function or structure of the kidney which has implications for health and that condition has persisted for more than three months, we call that chronic kidney disease. If it is less than three months, it is an acute kidney disease of which kidney injury is part.
The other thing is that the urine can contain protein or blood, and those connote kidney damage even without the elevation of urea and creatinine. Also, when we do an ultrasound or an X-ray test, we can discover structural damage to the kidney, that is, evidence of kidney damage.Acute kidney injury is a sudden deterioration of kidney function, occurring within hours to a few days. An individual who has been enjoying good kidney function and suddenly, an injury occurs to the kidney.
Diseases such as hypertension and diabetes can cause kidney damage. Also, elderly men with enlarged prostate, patients with kidney stones, kidney tumours, and holes in the kidney are risk factors for kidney damage. Because of waste product accumulation, the patient will start feeling very sick, feel like vomiting most of the time, and can vomit at some point and will have hiccups persistently. The patient also feels weak and tired and may convulse when the kidney is severely damaged. Finally, the patient can go into a coma and die.
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