kidney disease; renal disease
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Introduction
Includes diseases of the kidney.
Epidemiology
- chronic kidney disease often untreated in the elderly[2]
Laboratory
Radiology
- renal ultrasound
- urinary tract obstruction
- nephrolithiasis
- renal cysts
- mass lesions
- localization for kidney biopsy
- initial diagnostic test of choice[1]
- ultrasound doppler arteriography
- ACE inhibitor renography
- abdominal computed tomography (CT)
- CT ateriography
- renal artery stenosis
- renal vascular lesion
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- renal cysts
- mass lesions
- renal artery stenosis (imaging modality of choice)
- radionuclide kidney clearance scan
- GFR estimation
- renal infarcts
- urinary tract obstruction
Complications
- whildren with kidney disease that apparently resolves by adolescence still at increased risk for ESRD in adulthood[3]
More general terms
More specific terms
- acute kidney disease
- chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- diuretic abuse
- glomerulosclerosis
- hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
- horseshoe kidney
- hydronephrosis
- hyperoxaluria
- kidney infection
- kidney injury
- kidney neoplasm
- Liddle's syndrome (pseudohyperaldosteronism)
- light-chain deposition disease; Light chain nephropathy
- megacalycosis
- nephritis
- nephrocalcinosis
- nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI)
- nephrolithiasis; kidney stone
- nephropathy
- nephroptosis; floating kidney; renal ptosis
- nephrosclerosis
- nephrosis
- perinephric abscess
- pulmonary-renal syndrome
- pyelectasis (pyelectasia)
- pyeloureteritis cystica
- renal abscess
- renal amyloidosis; amyloid nephropathy
- renal artery atherosclerosis
- renal artery stenosis (RAS)
- renal colic; renal pain; ureteral spasm
- renal cortical necrosis
- renal cyst
- renal disease in pregnancy
- renal disorders in the elderly
- renal dysplasia
- renal failure; kidney failure
- renal fibrosis
- renal graft rejection
- renal infarction
- renal mass
- renal medullary washout
- renal vascular disease
- uremic encephalopathy
- Zellweger syndrome; cerebrohepatorenal syndrome
Additional terms
- age-associated changes in renal function
- hospice guidelines for determining prognosis, renal disease
- kidney
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15, 17. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2009, 2015
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Hemmelgarn BR et al. Rates of treated and untreated kidney failure in older vs younger adults. JAMA 2012 Jun 20; 307:2507. <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22797451 <Internet> http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1187929
Kurella Tamura M and Winkelmayer WC Treated and Untreated Kidney Failure in Older Adults: What's the Right Balance? PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22797456 JAMA. 2012;307(23):2545-2546 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1187910 - ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Calderon-Margalit R, Golan E, Twig G et al History of Childhood Kidney Disease and Risk of Adult End-Stage Renal Disease. N Engl J Med 2018; 378:428-438. Feb 1, 2018
- ↑ Kidney & Urologic Diseases http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/a-z.asp
- ↑ Your Kidneys and How They Work http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yourkidneys/index.htm
- ↑ Kidney and Urinary System http://health.nih.gov/search.asp/14