Kidney Disease
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More Specific Terms
- diabetic nephropathy (diabetic glomerulosclerosis, DMN)
- Fanconi renotubular syndrome
- genetic disease of the kidney
- glomerulosclerosis
- hypertensive renal disease
- light-chain deposition disease
- nephritis
- nephropathy
- nephrosis
- polycystic kidney disease
- pulmonary-renal syndrome
- renal amyloidosis
- renal artery atherosclerosis
- renal artery stenosis (RAS)
- renal cortical necrosis
- renal failure; kidney failure
- renal fibrosis
- renal mass
- renal osteodystrophy
- renal tubular disease
- renal vascular disease
- uremic encephalopathy
- Zellweger syndrome; cerebrohepatorenal syndrome
Introduction
- Includes diseases of the kidney.
Laboratory
Radiology
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- urinary tract obstruction
- nephrolithiasis
- renal cysts
- mass lesions
- localization for kidney biopsy
- ultrasound doppler arteriography
- abdominal computed tomography ( CT)
- urinary tract obstruction
- nephrolithiasis
- mass lesions
- CT ateriography
- renal artery stenosis
- renal vascular lesion
- renal cysts
- mass lesions
- renal artery stenosis (imaging modality of choice)
- GFR estimation
- renal infarcts
- urinary tract obstruction
More General Terms
Additional Terms
- age-associated changes in renal function
- hospice guidelines for determining prognosis, renal disease
- kidney
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2009
- Kidney & Urologic Diseases [1]
- Your Kidneys and How They Work [2]
- Kidney and Urinary System [3]
