Acute and Chronic Renal Failure : Springer : 9789400980655 : 9400980655 : 21 Oct 2011 : Renal function fails abruptly in a bewildering variety of clinical situations which lack any common clinical patterno This makes it impossible to define acute renal failure in the same way as heart failure or liver failureo Even oliguria, the commonest sign, is not invariably present. As a result, the detection of acute renal failure Table 1. Causes of acute renal failureo Acute tubular necrosis Ischaemic type Nephrotoxic type Cortical necrosi . ? Hepatorenal syndrome Occlusion of main renal arteries Occlusion of arterioles Malignant hypertension Haemolytic uraemic syndrome Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Postpartum nephrosclerosis Acute glomerulonephritis Post-streptococcal 'Crescentic' nephritis } °do thO °th t ° dO Necrotizing glomerulitis I IOpa IC WI sys emlc Iseases Renal vein thrombosis Obstruction U ric acid crystals Stones Tumours-benign and malignant Fibrosis Strictures 2 Acute and Chr