Kidney Failure And End Organ Damage. Evidence of hypertensive damage. 1 nephrology and hypertension section department of veterans affairs medical center minneapolis minnesota usa.
The primary connection between liver failure and kidney failure is that both conditions can lead to many of the same symptoms. The kidney and liver function in similar ways since each organ is a filter for various regions of the body and they each act to absorb toxins from the urine digestive tract and blood. Altered hemodynamics and end organ damage in heart failure.
Causes of acute and chronic kidney failure include medications cancer and cirrhosis.
Improved understanding of the mechanisms by which altered hemodynamics in heart failure affect the lungs and kidneys is needed in order to design novel strategies to improve clinical outcomes. In the kidney hemodynamic perturbations lead to sodium and water retention and worsening renal function. Acute kidney failure causes. Occasionally acute kidney failure causes permanent loss of kidney function or end stage renal disease.