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This term has come to be regarded as rather outmoded and has always been somewhat ambiguous. “Chronic” implies long term and irrecoverable; cf “acute” which implies the relatively sudden onset of renal impairment. In most situations, acute renal failure is something that has a potentially recoverable component unless there has been bilateral renal infarction or total nephrectomy. “Renal failure,” in the context of CRF, should be regarded more as “renal impairment” rather than failure and does not necessarily imply the need for RRT, at least in the short term.
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KDOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease: Evaluation, Classification, and Stratification. The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI™) 2011, New York. http://www.kidney.org/professionals/KDOQI/guidelines_ckd/toc.htm accessed January 2012.
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Short, C.D. (2012). Principles of Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT). In: Payne, S., Eardley, I., O'Flynn, K. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_75
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