Does my wife have acute renal failure?
Dr Vijay Kher
Chairman,
Department of Nephrology and Kidney transplant Medicine,
Fortis Kidney and Urology Institute,
Fortis Escorts Hospital, New Delhi
Chairman,
Department of Nephrology and Kidney transplant Medicine,
Fortis Kidney and Urology Institute,
Fortis Escorts Hospital, New Delhi
Q: My 36 years old wife has a kidney problem. She had undergone biopsies and report shows it an acute renal problem. The nephrologist had given her steroids for a month. Her creatinine level was reduced from 3.0 to 2.6 mg/dl, this level continued for three months but again after 4 months it decreased to 2.3 mg/dl.Is it chronic renal failure or acute renal failure?
A:Kidney dysfunction lasting for more than three months is chronic kidney disease. Acute kidney injury usually recovers within 3 months, any dysfunction, which has not recovered in 3 months is unlikely to recover and thus called chronic.