Renal failure mainly includes acute renal failure and chronic renal failure, with different causes seen in different disease types.
Acute renal failure is categorized into pre-renal, renal and post-renal. Pre-renal is mainly due to various reasons leading to insufficient renal perfusion, such as massive blood loss, diarrhea, renal artery embolism, etc., renal causes are mainly due to poisoning caused by drugs or heavy metal ions, etc., and post-renal causes are mainly due to bilateral urinary tract obstruction.
Chronic renal failure is mainly due to primary glomerulonephritis or secondary nephropathy, primary glomerulonephritis is common in membranous nephropathy, IgA nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, etc.; secondary nephropathy is common in diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive renal injury, etc.; in addition, hereditary diseases can also lead to renal failure, common ones are polycystic kidney disease, Alport syndrome and so on.
Kidney failure may also have other causes, it is recommended that patients go to regular hospitals in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy under the guidance of the doctor.