What is the difference between renal insufficiency, renal impairment & renal failure?
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. Renal impairment is the inability of the kidney to do its job, this is manifested by many things including increase in some substances that the kidney does not get rid of because it can’t. Some of these substances can be and are estimated in blood to evaluate the degree of renal failure. Sometimes, renal impairment and renal failure are used interchangeably.
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