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- Acute kidney failure
- Acute nephritic syndrome
- Analgesic nephropathy
- Atheroembolic renal disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Congenital nephrotic syndrome
- End-stage kidney disease
- Goodpasture syndrome
- Interstitial nephritis
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Injury - kidney and ureter
- Kidney stones
- Lupus nephritis
- Membranoproliferative GN
- Membranous nephropathy
- Minimal change disease
- Wilms tumor
- Nephrocalcinosis
- Diabetes insipidus - nephrogenic
- IgA nephropathy
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (GN)
- Reflux nephropathy
- Acute arterial occlusion - kidney
- Renal and urological disorders
- Renal papillary necrosis
- Distal renal tubular acidosis
- Proximal renal tubular acidosis
- Prerenal azotemia
- Renal vein thrombosis
- Metabolic syndrome
Kidney disease
Kidney disease is any disease or disorder that affects the function of the kidneys. This may include:
- Acute kidney failure
- Acute nephritic syndrome
- Analgesic nephropathy
- Atheroembolic renal disease
- Chronic kidney failure
- Chronic nephritis
- Congenital nephrotic syndrome
- End-stage renal disease
- Goodpasture syndrome
- Interstitial nephritis
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney damage
- Kidney infection
- Kidney injury
- Kidney stones
- Lupus nephritis
- Membranoproliferative GN I
- Membranoproliferative GN II
- Membranous nephropathy
- Minimal change disease
- Necrotizing glomerulonephritis
- Nephroblastoma
- Nephrocalcinosis
- Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
- Nephropathy - IgA
- Nephrosis (nephrotic syndrome)
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Post-streptococcal GN
- Reflux nephropathy
- Renal artery embolism
- Renal artery stenosis
- Renal disorders
- Renal papillary necrosis
- Renal tubular acidosis type I
- Renal tubular acidosis type II
- Renal underperfusion
- Renal vein thrombosis
Review Date: 8/27/2009
Reviewed By: Parul Patel, MD, Private Practice specializing in Nephrology and Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Affiliated with California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Transplantation, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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