title: [Pathology of renal ischemia and acute renal failure].
abstract: The morphological consequences of acute or chronic renal ischemia may consist of an anemic kidney infarction, bilateral cortical necrosis, acute tubular lesions in circulatory renal failure, so-called subinfarction, as well as arteriosclerotic endstage kidney. In renal biopsies obtained from patients with acute renal failure, renal dysfunction can be morphologically explained by acute intra- and extracapillary necrotizing glomerulonephritis in 50% of cases, and by solely acute tubular lesions in 30% of cases. It is suggested that the development of acute tubular lesions during circulatory insufficiency might be favoured by an angiotensin II-dependent vas efferens constriction, leading to a reduction of peritubular blood flow in the presence of preserved glomerular filtration. The balance between demand and supply of oxygen within the tubular epithelial cells might thereby be critically disturbed.
authors.affiliation: Abt. Pathologie I, Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Helmchen
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000473:pathology*; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000473:pathology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Pathologie der renalen Ischämie und des akuten Nierenversagens.