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  Q2: The following are more suggestive of chronic than acute renal failure:
b)

Oliguria

False - CORRECT.
Oliguria or, less usually, anuria may be a presenting feature of acute renal failure. Most patients with chronic renal failure continue to pass normal, or near normal, quantities of urine until after they have been established on long-term dialysis

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