Acute Kidney Failure Treatment
Health Encyclopedia: Injury Kidney And Ureter
Kidney damage; Toxic injury of the kidney; Kidney injury; Traumatic injury of the kidney; Fractured kidney; Inflammatory injury of the kidney; Bruised kidney; Ureteral injury
Treatment
Treatment goals include treatment of emergency symptoms and prevention or treatment of complications.
Analgesics may be needed for pain relief. Hospitalization and close observation may be required because of the risk of internal loss of blood from a traumatically injured k...
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