Question 1

what are the causes of acute tubular necrosis?

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Ischemia, drugs: Acute tubular necrosis (atn) can happen if the kidney has severely reduced blood supply (ischemia). 

This could be caused by hypotension (very low blood pressure), volume depletion (as a result of illness or trauma), problems with the blood vessels supplying the kidneys (renal artery blockage), and drugs that affect the flow of blood to the kidneys.

Drugs and toxins can also directly cause atn.

Question 2

i have decreased urination, could this be caused by acute tubular necrosis?

Accepted Answer

Very unlikely: Decreased urination almost always relates to either reduced fluid intake or increased fluid losses such as diarrhea or increased sweating. In the rare instance when low urine output is due to kidney disease, weight gain from the accumulated water retention should be measurable on a daily bases.

Question 3

what usually causes acute tubular necrosis when considering acute kidney failure?

Accepted Answer

Ask your doctor: You should be seeing a specialist called a nephrologist.  They will explain it to you.

Question 4

can you explain acute tubular necrosis?

Accepted Answer

Ischemia, drugs: Acute tubular necrosis (atn) can happen if the kidney has severely reduced blood supply (ischemia). 

This could be caused by hypotension (very low blood pressure), volume depletion (as a result of illness or trauma), problems with the blood vessels supplying the kidneys (renal artery blockage), and drugs that affect the flow of blood to the kidneys.

Drugs and toxins can also directly cause atn.

Question 5

what is the difference between acute renal failure and acute tubular necrosis?

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Here are some...: Acute renal failure is a general term denoting kidneys not able to good enough to manage water and electrolytes due to acute conditions such as shocks from various reasons, and acute tubular necrosis denotes what can be seen in kidney tissue under microscopic exam if biopsy is done, but not necessary for almost all cases. Clinically, they all tell us kidneys not working enough from acute causes.

Question 6

what's the treatment for acute tubular necrosis?

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Complex: Identify the cause of atn, resolve it, and prevent further blood pressure, hypoxia, or nephrotoxin insults while the kidney heals.

Question 7

can a liver hemangioma cause necrosis?

Accepted Answer

No: Hepatic hemangiomas may grow under the influence if Estrogens but typically remain stable or involute... Bodily trauma can potentially cause rupture , but spontaneous rupture is rare...

Question 8

what could cause avascular necrosis of the hip?

Accepted Answer

Fall or trauma: Avascular necrosis is typically caused by a very hard traumatic blow to an area or repetitive trauma to an area that causes a lack of blood flow to the bone and therby creating the avascular necrosis.  You need to see your orthopedist.

Question 9

what can cause nerve necrosis?

Accepted Answer

Many concerns: Necrosis is "death" or destruction of a nerve, and this sometimes is necessitated to alleviate pain, by an alcohol injection.  If a nerve is cut or transected, or if a nerve cell body dies (apoptosis), from a variety of inflammatory or degenerative causes, recovery is not possible.  So, nerve death can occur both in central and peripheral  nervous systems.   Timely treatment is always best.

Question 10

what is it about cold injury that kills the organs? could i ng term exposure cause organ necrosis and kill the victim?

Accepted Answer

GivinTheColdShoulder: Your question is a bit vague. But generally, if tissue is actually frozen (frostbite), water crystals form inside the cells and that messes-up the works. When thawed, the tissue is mush. If you are talking about hypothermia, the colder you get the slower your metabolism to the point that the lack of energy formation overcomes the overall slowness of the metabolic processes and then the cells die.

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