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Acute Kidney Injury
Nephrology · Urological
Severe
Severity
Common in hospitalised and critically ill patients, though less frequent in the general community population
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Nephrology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by conditions that reduce blood flow to the kidneys
- 2such as severe dehydration
- 3blood loss
- 4or heart failure
- 5direct damage to kidney tissue from infections
- 6certain medications
- 7or toxins
- 8or obstruction of urine flow from kidney stones
- 9an enlarged prostate
- 10or tumours. Critical illness
- 11major surgery
- 12and severe infections leading to sepsis are common triggers
- 13particularly in hospitalised patients. Pre-existing kidney disease
- 14diabetes
- 15and older age increase susceptibility to acute kidney injury when exposed to any of these triggers.
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