What is Kidney conditions?

What is Kidney conditions?

• Kidney conditions: Any condition affecting the kidney organs.
• Kidney conditions: Acute or chronic condition, characterized by the inability of the kidneys to adequately filter the blood substances, resulting in uremia and electrolyte imbalances. Acute renal failure is usually associated with oliguria or anuria, hyperkalemia, and pulmonary edema. Chronic renal failure is irreversible and requires hemodialysis.--2004
  Source - Diseases Database

Kidney conditions: Introduction

Types of Kidney conditions:

Types of Kidney conditions:

• Kidney disease
• Kidney stones
• Glomerular Disease
• Glomerulonephritis
• Glomerulosclerosis
• Kidney cancer
• Diabetic nephropathy
• Lupus nephritis
• End-stage renal disease
• Kidney failure (type of Kidney disease)
• Acute kidney failure (type of Kidney stones)
• IgA nephropathy
• Acute urinary conditions
• Urinary tract infections
• Urinary tract infections (child)
• Pyelonephritis
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Childhood nephrotic syndrome
• Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
• Goodpasture syndrome
• Nephrocalcinosis
• Kidney cysts
  • Simple kidney cysts
  • Polycystic kidney disease
  • Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease
  • Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
  • Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Autoimmune Diabetes Insipidus
• Alveolar Hydatid Disease
• Kidney Dialysis
• Primary amyloidosis
• Dialysis-related amyloidosis
• Hematuria
• Proteinuria
• Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Proximal Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Renal carbuncle
• Renal osteodystrophy
• Renal tuberculosis
• Tuberculosis
• Tuberous sclerosis
• Vesicoureteral reflux
• Wegener's granulomatosis
• Wilms' tumor
• Wilson's Disease
• Zellweger Syndrome
• Chronic kidney failure (type of Kidney stones)
• Nephritis
• Nephropathy
• Kidney transplant
• more types...»

Broader types of Kidney conditions:

• All Disease Categories
• Urinary disorders
• more types...»

How many people get Kidney conditions?

Prevalance of Kidney conditions: 15 per 1000 (NHIS95: "kidney trouble")
Prevalance Rate of Kidney conditions: approx 1 in 66 or 1.50% or 4.1 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Kidney conditions: 2.553 million cases (NIDDK)
Incidence Rate of Kidney conditions: approx 1 in 106 or 0.94% or 2.6 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Kidney conditions: 2.553 million conditions (in the civilian noninstitutionalized population) (Source: excerpt from Kidney and Urologic Diseases Statistics for the United States: NIDDK)

How serious is Kidney conditions?

Complications of Kidney conditions: see complications of Kidney conditions
Average life years lost for Kidney conditions: 13.3 for nephritis/nephrotic syndrome/nephrosis in North Carolina¹.
Deaths for Kidney conditions: 35,525 deaths reported in USA 1999 for nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (NVSR Sep 2001)

What causes Kidney conditions?

Causes of Kidney conditions: see causes of Kidney conditions
Risk factors for Kidney conditions: see risk factors for Kidney conditions

What are the symptoms of Kidney conditions?

Symptoms of Kidney conditions: see symptoms of Kidney conditions

Complications of Kidney conditions: see complications of Kidney conditions

Kidney conditions: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Kidney conditions.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Kidney conditions.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Kidney conditions: see treatments for Kidney conditions
Research for Kidney conditions: see research for Kidney conditions

Organs Affected by Kidney conditions:

Organs and body systems related to Kidney conditions include:

• Kidney

Name and Aliases of Kidney conditions

Main name of condition: Kidney conditions

Uremia [kidney failure], Renal failure [kidney failure], Azotemia renal [kidney failure] Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Kidney conditions:

• Acute pyelonephritis
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Glomerulonephritis
• Wilm's tumour
• Hydronephrosis
• Renal calculus
• Renal cell carcinoma

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