Symptoms and Causes of Acute Kidney Injury

Acute Kidney Injury is also known as Acute Renal Failure. It refers to the kidneys lose their function in several days and even hours. After the kidneys fail to function, a lot of metabolic products will build up in body thus damaging the systemic organs and tissues and even threaten the patients’ life.
Acute Kidney Injury mainly presents the following symptoms.
① The urine output usually decline drastically and suddenly, but occasionally the urine output may remain normal.
② Swelling firstly occurs in legs, eyelids or feet and then spreads to other body parts like lung, abdominal cavity etc.
③ The patients with Acute Renal Injury usually experience fatigue, loss of appetite, headache, nausea and vomiting etc. These symptoms are mainly attributable to the accumulation of urea and nitrogen-containing substances in blood stream.
④ Impaired renal function can result in building up potassium in blood. If the potassium level is too high in serum, it will trigger irregular heart beat and even heart failure thus threatening the patients’ life.
⑤ Some patients with Acute Renal Injury may experience flank pain. The pain is mainly caused by the thrombosis of the renal vessels or inflammation in kidneys.
Acute Renal Injury is mainly attributable to the following causes.
① Suddenly reduced renal blood flow
Kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and discharging metabolic products. Therefore, slow blood flow to kidneys can lead to renal failure. The diseases and conditions that can slow down blood flow to the kidneys mainly include dehydration, heart disease, massive haemorrhage, liver cirrhosis etc.
② Urine is blocked from leaving the body.
The kidneys discharge the metabolic wastes by producing urine. If the urine is blocked from leaving the body, it will result in Acute Renal Injury such as bladder cancer, kidney stone, prostatic hyperplasia, blood clots obstructing urinary tract etc.
In addition, the following factors such as lupus, infection, multiple myeloma, medications and toxins etc also can trigger Acute Renal Injury.
The above are the symptoms and causes of Acute Renal Injury. If you are diagnosed with the disease, you should receive treatment at once to reverse the disease.
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