The Hepatorenal Syndrome — Newer Perspectives

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Abstract
Patients with liver disease often have a unique form of renal failure for which a specific cause or causes cannot be identified. This condition has been given many names, including functional renal failure and the renal failure of cirrhosis, but it is most often called the hepatorenal syndrome, a more appealing, albeit less specific term. The hepatorenal syndrome may be defined as renal failure that occurs in patients with liver disease in the absence of clinical, laboratory, or anatomical evidence of other known causes.1 Although the syndrome usually occurs in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, cirrhosis is not necessary for its . . .