acute renal failure in pregnancy
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Etiology
- acute tubular necrosis (most common)
- acute cortical necrosis
- pre-eclampsia[2]
Clinical manifestations
- anuria & hematuria or the presence of oliguria for > 1 week suggest acute cortical necrosis
Laboratory
- renal biopsy (rarely necessary)
Complications
- abruptio placenta
- septic abortion
- severe preeclampsia
- amniotic fluid embolism
- retained fetus
More general terms
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mehrabadi A et al Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and the recent increase in obstetric acute renal failure in Canada: population based retrospective cohort study. BMJ 2014;349:g4731 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25077825 <Internet> http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4731