Talk:Kidney failure

message: This article refers to "African-American" as a "race" which it is not.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.240.201.51 (talk) 19:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: looks like someone already did it. onya. Markjohndaley 17:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Mistakes

message: I just spent 20 minutes on google trying to find urine productions figures that match "0.5 mL" for children, but the few numbers I came across weren't specific to children and were approximate to eachother. I don't remember peeing that much more when I was a kid than now, perhaps it was a typo and meant "500 mL" or "0.5 dL", however I do not feel qualified to do anything but bring this to people's attention, hoping someone with some real knowledge (or at least the knowledge of where to find the answer) will chime in. Half a cubic centimeter of urine just seems, well, low. Hope I did this talk page thing right. - Jay Straw (thisiswherejunkgoes@gmail.com) @ 12:22 AM US-EST 9 Sept 2006 Over and out
:It's a unit problem. I'm fixing it now. - Nunh-huh 04:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urine Production Figures 

message: what are some symptoms and when do they occur?
:sensible question and one I should be able to reel off the top of my head.  I'll just check the book...  ARF: depends on how severe, how quick and it depends on the cause. sometimes a reduction in urine sometimes an increase, sometimes bloody looking urine sometimes not (not really an encyclopedic answer), electrolyte disturbances especially hyperkalemia and acidosis, signs of uraemia like encephalopathy or spontaneous bleeding and sepsis (and smelling uraemic..),  signs of acute pulmonary oedema (shortness of breath and pink frothy sputum)  CRF: a bit more list-able: malaise, anorexia, insomnia, osteomalacia, noct/polyuria, polyneuropathy, bone pain, salt and water retention (oedema, raised JVP, heart failure), anaemia, sexual dysfunction, mental status changes.  I'm sure they are (or should be) on the ARF and CRF pages Markjohndaley 17:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symptoms 

message: I'm wondering about the statement:However, serum creatinine levels are also affected by the patient's existing muscle mass, which varies with age, sex, and race. For instance, younger patients, male patients, and African descended patients typically have higher muscle mass, while certain disease states, such as liver failure, lead to a decrease in muscle mass. Therefore, neglecting to account for high muscle mass may lead to a false suspicion of kidney failure; conversely, neglecting to account for low muscle mass may lead to a missed diagnosis in which the creatinine from kidney failure has actually brought the total creatinine back into the "normal" range. I was under the impression that this would be more appropriate a statement about the interpretation of eGFR. Do american doctors use creatinine like eGFR?   If not I think that woould be better put in that page.  We were taught that creatinine is a guide and can only be compared to itself (unless it is tremendously high) and the best differentiator for acute and chronic renal failure is still history (and U/S), or so says Bill our Nephrologist with the sticky up hair. Markjohndaley 17:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Creatinine

message: The flowchart near the top of the page is very helpful in elucidating the many confusing subcategories of renal failure!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.145.61 (talk) 02:30, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you! ;) SweetNightmares (talk) 17:58, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flowchart 

message: Does anyone here know of anybody who died of kidney failure (apart from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)? --121.7.203.206 (talk) 08:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Victims? 

message: I'm very confused why this article might have become a victim of an organised vandalism attack from numerous IPs. JFW | T@lk 03:44, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 4chan's /b/ board sometimes picks a article at random to deface. That's all that happened here. — Gavia immer (talk) 03:53, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attack 

message: I understand how weight loss can be a symptom of any severe illness especially associated with an organ failure, but isn't increase of weight caused by edemas more common in renal failure than weight loss?  
Also in a lot of cases: kidney disease that causes insufficient blood flow in kidneys (even if blood pressure is normal in the whole body) -> kidneys secrete renin -> blood flow in the kidneys barely gets any better because the capillaries are damaged -> even more renin -> high blood pressure
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.165.74 (talk) 09:43, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight loss vs weight gain and low blood pressure vs high blood pressure

message: The article uses the terms renal failure and renal insufficiency as synonyms, which I do not agree with.
Renal insufficiency is due to reduced blood flow to the kidneys resulting in a decrease in urine production, increased plasma volume and resultant increase in blood pressure.
Renal failure is what this article discusses. Kidney damage resulting in a decreased ability to concentrate urine.  Urine produced due to renal failure is dilute (isotonic) and excreted in vast amounts (polyuria).
Recommend references to "renal insufficiency" be removed from this article and a new article regarding renal insufficiency be created at some point.Sumostorm (talk) 18:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  renal failure versus renal insufficiency 

message: The above two entities are completely different: this article covers the two entities resulting in failure. It should not address chronic kidney disease, which has 5 stages, 4 of which are not kidney failure, but impaired kidney function. Thus my edits changing "disease" to "failure". IiKkEe (talk) 15:51, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronic kidney disease vs chronic kidney failure 

message: There is some recent literature on the relationships between kidney failure, heat stress, and climate change, for instance:
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This is certainly not my area, so I am just flagging the issue for others more qualified to consider.  With best wishes, RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 19:59, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  kidney failure, heat stress, and climate change 

message: It sounds like kid named finger Fanumstein 09 (talk) 19:56, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kid named finger 

message: I am merging the renal failure index article here without discussion as it seems uncontroversial to me. Darcyisverycute (talk) 04:50, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of renal failure index