Chronic renal insufficiency and renal failure, azotemia, uremia differ

For chronic renal insufficiency and renal failure, azotemia, uremia differ, the same thing? There are many users consulted this issue. Now for renal failure description, the term more. Here is my hospital Yuan Weiyi director for you to explain it.

There are a lot of patients or their family members with chronic renal insufficiency and renal failure, azotemia, uremia differ not very clear, Yuanzhu Ren said yes right kidney disease three different descriptions.

Chronic renal insufficiency, someone summed it up for the whole process of chronic kidney disease, that is, from impaired renal function begins to kidney failure, which includes the kidneys are still to complete loss of function of metabolic functions in all phases; also be considered chronic renal failure occurred in the early and middle stages of decompensation, and chronic renal failure, renal insufficiency is a whole decompensated stage.

Azotemia is a biochemical term, regardless of what causes it is, as long as blood urea nitrogen or creatinine outside the normal range, may become azotemia.

Uremia once was first used by people that "urinary retention in the blood" can cause poisoning from, used to describe the syndrome, renal failure, but with the development of medicine, people realized that uremia is the performance of end-stage kidney, its mechanism is not "urinary retention in the blood," end-stage renal disease pathological anatomy noun, also known as renal atrophy, when the glomerular and tubular been largely or completely destroyed, the kidneys have completely lost the original physiological functions.