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Treatment

• Medical
  • Antithrombolytics, anticoagulants, antihypertensives.
    
    
• Surgery or angioplasty
  • Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis.
    
    
• Nephrectomy
  • Irreversible traumatic global infarction.
    
    

Key Points

• Localized or global area of ischemic necrosis in kidney, resulting most often from sudden occlusion of its arterial supply.
  
  
• Residual renal function after infarct depends on territory of involvement and timely treatment.
  
  
• Causes are usually embolic phenomenon from the heart, but can included thromboses and trauma.
  
  
• Treatment includes thrombolytics, antihypertensives, angioplasty, surgery, or nephrectomy.