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“Chronic” implies long term and irrecoverable; cf “acute” which implies the relatively sudden onset of renal impairment. In most situations, acute renal failure is something that has a potentially recoverable component unless there has been bilateral renal infarction or total nephrectomy. “Renal failure,” in the context of chronic kidney disease (CKD), should be regarded more as “renal impairment” rather than failure and does not necessarily imply the need for renal replacement therapy (RRT), at least in the short term.
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Patel, M. (2023). Principles of Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT). In: Tolofari, S., Moon, D., Starmer, B., Payne, S. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26058-2_80
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