Common Causes of Chronic Renal Failure
| Diabetic nephropathy |
| Hypertensive nephropathya |
| Glomerulonephritis |
| Renovascular disease (ischemic nephropathy) |
| Polycystic kidney disease |
| Reflux nephropathy and other congenital renal diseases |
| Interstitial nephritis, including analgesic nephropathy |
| HIV-associated nephropathy |
| Transplant allograft failure (“chronic rejection”) |
aOften diagnosis of exclusion; very few pts undergo renal biopsy; may be occult renal disease with hypertension.