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To the Editor: Klahr and Miller reviewed the fundamentals of acute oliguria (March 5 issue)¹ and noted that "the absence of urinary output suggests that the patient has obstructive uropathy, renal cortical necrosis, or necrotizing glomerular disease." Once complete urinary tract obstruction has been ruled out, we agree that renal cortical necrosis and necrotizing glomerular disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of anuria, but we would add complete renal vascular occlusion and acute tubular necrosis to the list of medical causes. Although anuria not infrequently complicates renal cortical necrosis, necrotizing glomerular disease, and renal vascular occlusion, these diseases . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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