What is the difference between Acute Renal Failure and Renal Insufficiency?
Posted by aWellWisher
ARF is recent onset and more severe. RI may be chronic and less severe but RI is rather widely used and may include ARF too.
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Posted by gazeygoo
Acute renal failure is sudden onset of failure, kidneys are not working and will not recover. Renal insufficiency is when the kidneys are not able to work to capacity for some reason and is chronic or been going on for awhile.
Posted by Mark S
Renal insufficiency, also called renal failure, is when your kidneys no longer have enough kidney function to maintain a normal state of health. Note that the term renal failure is beginning to be replaced by renal insufficiency when in the context of chronic kidney disease. There are two kinds.
Acute renal failure (ARF)
Chronic renal insufficiency (CRI)
Chronic renal insufficiency itself causes more loss of kidney function.
As chronic renal insufficiency continues and progresses, the person may eventually reach the point where it is considered to be end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
I have been in the medical field for 17 years, and this is the best explanation I could find. The link is below.
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