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Description of disease:

Kidney failure or renal failure is a condition in which kidneys are unable to perform their main function - eliminating excessive liquid from blood.
It can be divided into four phases:
- preliminary phase - although the disease has already started and single nephrons don't filtrate, their number is not reduced yet
- oliguria phase - this phase is marked by the increase of the tubule and increase in blood flow
- polyuria phase
- repair phase

There are five types of kidney failure: prerenal, renel, postrenal, inflammatory and noninflammatory kidney failure.

Symptoms:


hiperuresia
oliguria and anuria (decreased or absent urine production)
polyuria, passing large amounts of urine



Research:


Blood cell count
Urine analysis
USG of the urinary tract



Doctors :


Nephrologist





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