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    Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal...
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    Kidney disease, or renal disease, technically referred to as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is an inflammatory kidney disease...
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    Polycystic kidney disease (PKD or PCKD, also known as polycystic kidney syndrome) is a genetic disorder in which the renal tubules become structurally...
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    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of long-term kidney disease, in which either there is a gradual loss of kidney function which occurs over a period...
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    kidneys using medical ultrasound. Ultrasonography of the kidneys is essential in the diagnosis and management of kidney-related diseases. The kidneys...
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  • kidney stone disease. Colonization with O. formigenes has been observed to results in a decrease in urinary oxalate and reduced frequency of kidney stones...
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    The chronic kidney disease of the cat (CKD or CNE) – also called chronic renal insufficiency (CRI or CNI) or chronic renal failure (CRF) in the older literature –...
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  • 1001/jama.2012.6217. PMID 22797461. Coe, F. L. (October 2005). "Kidney stone disease". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 115 (10): 2598–2608. doi:10...
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    kidney injury, and pyelonephritis. Urology addresses diseases of kidney (and urinary tract) anatomy: these include cancer, renal cysts, kidney stones...
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    antibiotics, and chemotherapeutic agents. Postrenal causes of AKI include kidney stones, bladder cancer, neurogenic bladder, enlargement of the prostate, narrowing...
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    and organs. Chronic kidney disease (CKD or chronic renal disease) is a condition in which there is a progressive loss of kidney function. It has numerous...
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    sponge kidney are at increased risk for kidney stones and urinary tract infection (UTI). Patients with MSK typically pass twice as many stones per year...
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    in donated blood. It is used as an alkalinizing agent to prevent kidney stone disease. The crystals form as nearly perfect cubes. "Sodium dihydrogen citrate"...
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    calcium in the urine, formation of calcium kidney stones, nephrocalcinosis, and chronic kidney failure. "Dent's disease" is often used to describe an entire...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyelonephritis
    Those with severe disease may require treatment in hospital. In those with certain structural problems of the urinary tract or kidney stones, surgery may be...
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    (disorder). Ureter stone Kidney stone disease McNutt, WF (1893). "Chapter VII: Vesical Calculi (Cysto-lithiasis)". Diseases of the kidneys and bladder: a...
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    Kidney cancer, also known as renal cancer, is a group of cancers that starts in the kidney. Symptoms may include blood in the urine, a lump in the abdomen...
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    end-stage kidney disease but can occur in the earlier stages of chronic kidney disease and rarely in people with normally functioning kidneys. Calciphylaxis...
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  • horseshoe kidney. The abnormal anatomy can affect kidney drainage resulting in increased frequency of kidney stones and urinary tract infections as well as increase...
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  • Thumbnail for Diabetic nephropathy
    Diabetic nephropathy, also known as diabetic kidney disease, is the chronic loss of kidney function occurring in those with diabetes mellitus. Diabetic...
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    or urethra (urethritis) while upper urinary tract infections affect the kidney (pyelonephritis). Symptoms from a lower urinary tract infection include...
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  • Nephrology (redirect from Kidney doctor)
    kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease...
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  • Urologic diseases or conditions include urinary tract infections, kidney stones, bladder control problems, and prostate problems, among others. Some urologic...
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    These are known risk factors for kidney stone disease, but despite that, xylitol has not been linked to kidney disease in humans. A 2024 study suggests...
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    in club soda. Higher potassium intake may prevent development of kidney stone disease. Higher potassium intake is associated with a reduced risk of stroke...
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    (CAS#1306-01-0): Ca4(PO4)2O Calcium phosphate stones account for approximately 15% of kidney stone disease. Calcium phosphate stones tend to grow in alkaline urine,...
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  • Thumbnail for IgA nephropathy
    also known as Berger's disease (/bɛərˈʒeɪ/) (and variations), or synpharyngitic glomerulonephritis, is a disease of the kidney (or nephropathy) and the...
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    stones of the kidney are less common and do not often cause significant disease, although they can contribute to pyelonephritis and chronic kidney disease...
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    World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. In 2010, according to the Institute...
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    indicative of cystinosis, a rare genetic disease. Cystine stones account for about 1-2% of kidney stone disease in adults. Cystine serves as a substrate...
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