Kidney conditions

Introduction: Kidney conditions

Any condition affecting the kidneys. A healthy kidney is an abdominal organ involved in removing waste products from the blood. The kidneys may be affected by inflammation, infection, obstruction, structural defects, injuries, tumors and stone formation.

Symptoms of Kidney conditions

• Proteinuria
• Microalbuminuria

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Kidney conditions:

• Bladder & Urinary Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Bladder Tests
  • Home Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Tests
  • Home Cystitis Tests
  • Home Kidney Tests
  • Home Urine Protein Tests (Kidney Function)
  • Home Prostate Cancer Tests
• Kidney Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Microalbumin Tests (Kidney)
  • Home Urine Protein Tests (Kidney)
  • Home Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about Kidney conditions

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Diagnostic Tests for Kidney conditions

• Urine protein test
• Urinalysis
• Serum creatinine
• Serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN)

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Kidney conditions?

• Misdiagnosis of Kidney conditions
• Failure to diagnose Kidney conditions
• Underlying causes of Kidney conditions (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Failure to diagnose Kidney conditions

Misdiagnosis and Kidney conditions

Interstitial cystitis an under-diagnosed bladder condition: The medical condition of interstitial cystitic is a bladder condition that can be misdiagnosed as various conditions such as overactive bladder or other causes of pelvic pain. This condition can cause chronic pelvic pain or symptoms of urinary incontinence, similar to overactive bladder. Millions of patients may be misdiagnosed - an estimated third of the 9 million women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) or 4.5 million of the 17 million women with overactive bladder syndrome do not respond well to treatment, and may have interstitial cystitis rather than their given diagnosis. In other words, about 6 million US women may have misdiagnosed interstitial cystitis. See interstitial cystitis or overactive bladder, or incontinence....read more »

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Causes of Kidney conditions

• Hypertension
• Diabetes

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• Kidney conditions as a symptom
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Patient Surveys for Kidney conditions

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Prognosis for Kidney conditions

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Reseach about Kidney conditions

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Clinical Trials for Kidney conditions

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Kidney conditions include:

• ADVANCE: Study to Evaluate Cinacalcet Plus Low Dose Vitamin D on Vascular Calcification in Subjects With Chronic Kidney Disease Receiving Hemodialysis - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - cinacalcet
• Pirfenidone to Treat Kidney Disease in Patients With Diabetes - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Pirfenidone
• Olmesartan Medoxomil and Diabetic Nephropathy - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Olmesartan medoxomil,Losartan
• Sulodexide to Treat Type 2 Diabetic Nephropathy - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Sulodexide
• Growth Hormone Secretagogue MK-677 Therapy Effect on IGF-1 Levels in CKD and ESRD Patients - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - MK-677

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Statistics for Kidney conditions

• Medical statistics for Kidney conditions
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Kidney conditions
• Death and Mortality statistics for Kidney conditions
• Society statistics for Kidney conditions

Types of Kidney conditions

• Kidney disease
• Kidney stones
• Glomerular Disease
• Glomerulonephritis
• Glomerulosclerosis

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