CKD is a more wider range than Chronic Renal Failure with a larger group of patients, and in fact all the kidney disease are chronic disease except the acute one, and all of them belong to the sphere of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). On the other hand, Chronic Renal Failure refers to the group of people whose Chronic Renal Failure (Glomerular Filtration Rate) is lower than 90ml/min. Chronic Renal Failure is a medical term for the quantity of the initial urine produced by the two kidneys, and the normal range of it is 125ml/min. Thus we can say people get Chronic Renal Failure if their Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is severe and the Chronic Renal Failure is less than 90ml/min.
Generally speaking, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) will develop into Chronic Renal Failure sooner or later. Some patients can live a normal life with CKD if their disease can be treated timely and effectively, but if not, their disease can develop into Chronic Renal Failure. This is particularly common in patients with chronic interstitial nephritis, hypertensive glomerular atherosclerosis, Immunotherapyic lupus erythematosus, nephrophthisis, diabetic glomerular sclerosis, Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) and stones in the urinary tract.
Chronic Renal Failure is the late stage of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and when people get Chronic Renal Failure, the parenchyma of the kidneys is damaged and showing a reduction of the active units in the kidneys. Under such an occasion, the balance of water and electrolyte in the body can be broken and cause changes in the kidneys. In addition, if the Chronic Renal Failure gets severer, it can develop into Uremia at last which will threaten the patient’s life.
