Abstract
The most common cause of acute renal failure is acute tubular necrosis but the events that precede this catastrophe have changed considerably over the last 40 years. In the 1950s and the 1960s most severe acute renal failure that required dialysis developed after trauma and surgery; now most such cases are secondary to iatrogenic toxins. Table I shows the causes of acute renal failure in 139 patients seen at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and University Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. In most of these episodes, renal failure was secondary to administered drugs, commonly antibiotics, followed by ACE inhibitors (Table II).
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Kjellstrand, C. (1993). Risk factors for acute renal failure in the elderly. In: Oreopoulos, D.G., Michelis, M.F., Herschorn, S. (eds) Nephrology and Urology in the Aged Patient. Developments in Nephrology, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1822-4_18
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