What is Kidney disease?

What is Kidney disease?

• Kidney disease: Reduced kidney function from various causes.
• Kidney disease: 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 disease: a disease affecting the kidneys.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Kidney disease: Introduction

Types of 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
• Advanced clinical nephropathy (Stage 4)
• Kidney failure (Stage 5)
• Chronic renal insufficiency
• Early kidney failure
• Diabetic nephropathy
• Kidney failure
• more types...»

Broader types of Kidney disease:

• Chronic Illness
• Urinary disorders
• Kidney conditions
• Under-diagnosed conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Kidney disease?

Prevalance of Kidney disease: 7.4 million adults in the USA 1988-94 (American Journal of Kidney Disease)
Prevalance Rate of Kidney disease: approx 1 in 36 or 2.72% or 7.4 million people in USA [about data]

How serious is Kidney disease?

Complications of Kidney disease: see complications of Kidney disease
Deaths for Kidney disease: 35,525 annual deaths due to nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (NVSR Sep 2001)
Cause of death rank for Kidney disease: 8th leading cause of death in 1999 and 2000 is "nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis" (CDC)

What causes Kidney disease?

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

What are the symptoms of Kidney disease?

Symptoms of Kidney disease: see symptoms of Kidney disease

Complications of Kidney disease: see complications of Kidney disease

Kidney disease: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Kidney disease.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Kidney disease.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Kidney disease: see treatments for Kidney disease
Prevention of Kidney disease: see prevention of Kidney disease
Research for Kidney disease: see research for Kidney disease

Society issues for Kidney disease

Cost statistics for Kidney disease: The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Kidney disease:

• Estimated $579,082,000 spent in public hospitals on kidney and urinary tract disorders in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• Estimated $205,701,000 spent in public hospitals on kidney and urinary tract disorders in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• more statistics...»

Hospitalization statistics for Kidney disease: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Kidney disease:

• 0.26% (33,059) of hospital episodes were for kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 84% of hospital consultations for kidney disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 46% of hospital episodes for kidney disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 54% of hospital episodes for kidney disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 52% of hospital admissions for kidney disease required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 6.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for kidney disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Kidney disease:

Organs and body systems related to Kidney disease include:

• Kidney

Name and Aliases of Kidney disease

Main name of condition: Kidney disease

Other names or spellings for Kidney disease:

kidney problems

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

Renal disorder, Nephropathy, Nephrosis
Source - WordNet 2.1

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

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

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