Renal papillary necrosis
Alternate Names : Necrosis - renal papillae, Renal medullary necrosis
Definition ...
Renal papillary necrosis is a disorder of the kidneys in which all or part renal papillae die. The renal papillae is the area where the openings of the collecting ducts enter the kidney.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors: ...
Renal papillary necrosis
Major calyx/pelvis
Hydronephrosis Â- Pyonephrosis Â- Reflux nephropathy ...
Renal papillary necrosis
Renal tubular acidosis
Resistant hypertension: When your blood pressure is difficult to control ...
Renal papillary necrosis
Renal rickets
Renal tubular acidosis - distal
Renal tubular acidosis - proximal
Renal tubular acidosis type I
Renal tubular acidosis type II
Renal underperfusion
Renal vein thrombosis
Renovascular hypertension ...
Long-term administration of NSAIDs has resulted in renal papillary necrosis and other renal injury. Renal toxicity has also been seen in patients in whom renal prostaglandins have a compensatory role in the maintenance of renal perfusion.
Acute renal failure
Chronic renal failure
Interstitial nephritis
Renal papillary necrosis (tissue death)
Urinary tract infections, chronic or recurrent
Hypertension
Transitional cell carcinoma of the kidney or ureter ...
Complications include thromboembolic disease, renal papillary necrosis, aseptic necrosis of the femoral (and humeral) head, increased rates of early spontaneous abortion (in pregnant women with SC disease) and proliferative retinopathy.
Backflow of urine into the ureters or kidney pelvis
Kidney stones
Ostructive uropathy
Renal papillary necrosis ...
 See also: Kidney, Nephritis, Hypertension, Symptom, Fusion
  
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