kidney disease
Sign in to saveAlso known as renal disease, kidney damage, kidney injury, nephropathy, disease of kidney, disorder of kidney, kidney necrosis, nephron damage
urinary system disease that is located in the kidney
Key facts
- Other names
- Renal disease, nephropathy
- Specialty
- Nephrology , urology
- Complications
- Uremia , death
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
825,677 papers- Immunology of Kidney Disease.Annual review of immunology · 2024
- Chronic kidney disease.Lancet (London, England) · 2012
- Kidney disease models: tools to identify mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets.Zoological research · 2018
- K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2002
- Iron and ferroptosis in kidney disease: molecular and metabolic mechanisms.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3149
- health specialty
- urology
- Commons category
- Kidney diseases
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- paricalcitol
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:557
- different from
- peripheral neuropathy
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- anatomical location
- kidney
- ICD-9-CM
- 583.81
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kidney diseases, or renal diseases, technically referred to as nephropathies, are pathological conditions affecting the kidneys—the organs that facilitate removal of waste products and toxins from the bloodstream, regulate the body's concentration of electrolytes, maintain the appropriate acid-base balance of plasma, and produce urine as a byproduct of metabolism.
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