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kidney disease; renal disease
Includes diseases of the kidney.
Epidemiology:
- chronic kidney disease often untreated in the elderly [2]
Laboratory:
- urinalysis
Radiology:
- renal ultrasound
a) urinary tract obstruction
b) nephrolithiasis
c) renal cysts
d) mass lesions
e) localization for kidney biopsy
f) initial diagnostic test of choice [1]
- ultrasound doppler arteriography
- renal artery stenosis
- ACE inhibitor renography
- renal artery stenosis
- abdominal computed tomography (CT)
a) urinary tract obstruction
b) nephrolithiasis
c) mass lesions
- 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]
Interactions
disease interactions
Related
age-associated changes in renal function
hospice guidelines for determining prognosis, renal disease
kidney
Specific
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
General
urologic disease
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15, 17.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2009, 2015
- Hemmelgarn BR et al.
Rates of treated and untreated kidney failure in older vs
younger adults.
JAMA 2012 Jun 20; 307:2507.
PMID: 22797451
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: 22797456
JAMA. 2012;307(23):2545-2546
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1187910
- 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