title: A practical approach to acute renal failure.
abstract: Acute renal failure represents a wide variety of renal diseases, which may be challenging to diagnose and even more challenging to treat. As understanding of these diseases improves, so perhaps will clinicians' ability to treat them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mindell
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Chertow
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000503:physiopathology; D007683:Kidney Tubular Necrosis, Acute / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D006435:Renal Dialysis