Acute kidney failure can lead to serious complications like chest pain, fluid buildup, muscular weakness, permanent kidney damage, and even death. Normally acute kidney failure occurs in concurrence with another serious medical condition.
Complications and Risk Factors for Acute Kidney Failure
New York (USA), June 23, 2013
Acute Kidney Failure: Complications
Acute kidney failure can lead to serious complications like:
Chest Pain: Inflammation of tissue lining your heart causes chest pain.
Fluid Buildup: Fluid accumulation in chest causes breathlessness.
Muscular Weakness: Acute kidney failure changes chemical balance of blood and levels of different constituents of blood fluids and electrolytes change. This causes muscular weakness. Further, high potassium levels in blood are extremely dangerous and fatal.
Permanent Kidney Damage: Acute kidney failure damages your kidneys irreversibly. You thereafter require either a kidney transplant or permanent dialysis in order to survive. Permanent dialysis involves removal of toxins from your blood through a mechanical filtration process done at regular intervals.
Death: Acute kidney failure leads to loss of kidney function eventually resulting in death. Such fatal occurrences are high in those already suffering from various kidney ailments and thereafter suffering acute kidney failure.
Acute Kidney Failure: Risk Factors
Normally acute kidney failure occurs in concurrence with another serious medical condition. However, common risk factors for AKI include:
– Serious ailments that lead to hospitalization in intensive care
– Kidney diseases
– Diabetes
– Heart failure
– Liver diseases
– High blood pressure
– Advanced age
– Peripheral artery disease or blockages in blood vessels of arms or legs
Other risk factors include lung disorders, severe dehydration, excessive blood loss due to any injury or medical situation, and other renal disorders.
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