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Functional KIDNEY FAILURE in patients with liver disease, usually LIVER CIRRHOSIS or portal hypertension (HYPERTENSION, PORTAL), and in the absence of intrinsic renal disease or kidney abnormality. It is characterized by intense renal vasculature constriction, reduced renal blood flow, OLIGURIA, and sodium retention.
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- Syndrome, Hepatorenal
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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91(87); was see under KIDNEY DISEASES 1987-90
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- Kidney Diseases (1966-1986)
- Kidney Failure, Acute (1967-1986)
- Kidney Failure, Chronic (1966-1986)
- Liver Cirrhosis (1966-1986)
- Liver Diseases (1966-1986)
- Syndrome (1972-1986)
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- National Library of Medicine. Hepatorenal Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006530. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006530
- Hepatorenal Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatorenal_syndrome
- Hepatorenal Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q247131