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Acute Renal Failure : definition and types

Acute Renal Failure : definition and types

Welcome to the new week.

In this step, Prof. Chen gives the outline for this lesson first.

Following that, she clarifies the clinical definition of Acute Renal Failure (ARF).

Also, there are many risk factors to develop ARF, including sepsis, bleeding, volume depletion, and chronic liver disease.

Finally, we should notice that there are three types of ARF: anuria, oliguria, and non-oliguria. They are actually differentiated by the urine output.

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