Kidney disease

Introduction: Kidney disease

Kidney disease: Reduced kidney function from various causes. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Kidney disease is available below.

Symptoms of Kidney disease

• Microalbuminuria
• Proteinuria

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Kidney disease:

• 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 disease

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Diagnostic Tests for Kidney disease

• Serum creatinine
• Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)
• Random urine test
• 24-hour urine test
• Creatinine clearance test

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Kidney disease?

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

Misdiagnosis and Kidney disease

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 disease

• Diabetes
• Hypertension

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More information about causes of Kidney disease:

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• Drug interactions causing Kidney disease (376 listings)
• Underlying causes of Kidney disease
• Kidney disease as a complication caused by other conditions
• Kidney disease as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Kidney disease
• Cause statistics for Kidney disease

Treatments for Kidney disease

• Control diabetes
• Control blood pressure
• Low-protein diets
• Kidney dialysis
• Kidney transplant

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Prognosis for Kidney disease

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Prevention of Kidney disease

Prevention information for Kidney disease has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Kidney disease.

• Control diabetes
• Control blood pressure
• Low-protein diets
• Vitamin B12 - possibly used for prevention of Vitamin B12 deficiency

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Statistics for Kidney disease

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

Types of Kidney disease

• Nephritis - kidney disease due to inflammation
• Nephropathy - due to non-inflammatory causes
• Hyperfiltration (Stage 1) - increased filtering without microalbuminuria
• Mild microalbuminuria (Stage 2) - early stages of microalbuminuria
• Clinical albuminuria (Stage 3) - microalbuminuria in larger amounts

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Definitions of Kidney disease:

A disease affecting the kidneys - (Source - WordNet 2.1)