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Genetics Home Reference: Dent disease by nih.gov Posted Thu 20 Sep 2012 1:01pm On this page: Description Genetic changes Inheritance Diagnosis Additional information Other names Glossary definitions Reviewed September 2012 What is Dent disease? Dent disease is a chronic kidney disorder that occurs almost ... Read on »

Intensive Therapy Halves Kidney Disease in Type 1 Diabetes by Medline Plus Posted Mon 14 Nov 2011 6:17pm Controlling blood glucose early in the course of type 1 diabetes yields huge dividends, preserving kidney function for decades. The new finding from a study funded by the National Institutes of Health was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine Nov. 12 to coincide with p ... Read on »

Genetics Home Reference: dense deposit disease by nih.gov Posted Mon 07 Feb 2011 1:29pm On this page: Description Genetic changes Inheritance Treatment Additional information Other names Glossary definitions Reviewed February 2011 What is dense deposit disease? Dense deposit disease is a condition that primarily af ... Read on »

Protein in Urine Can Forecast Kidney Disease by Medline Plus Posted Thu 29 Jul 2010 3:13pm Thursday, July 29, 2010 By Emma Ashburn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors may be able to watch for kidney injury and protect patients by looking for protein in urine, researchers reported on Thursday. Patients with the highest levels of pro ... Read on »

Identifying Kidney Failure by KidneyHealth .. Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm LISA CLARK: I'm Lisa Clark. Thank you for joining us for this webcast. The statistics are sobering. An estimated 1 out of every 12 people in America suffers from kidney and urinary tract diseases. Kidney disease is one of the most expensive chronic disease to treat, and partly due to an aging population, it has become the ninth leading cause of dea ... Read on »

Top 10 Most Asked Questions about Kidney Cancer PART 3 by kenny Posted Mon 05 Oct 2009 10:03pm Q5. Can I live a normal life if I have only one kidney?Most patients with stage I and stage II kidney cancer are likely to receive a nephrectomy, in other cases, one kidney may be donated to a loved one with other kidney disease, such as kidney failure. “Can I live a normal life if I have only one kidney?” is the most concerned question in these ca ... Read on »

Chronic kidney disease by Kel H. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 08 Oct 2008 12:12am (Today another guest post by Dr Andrew Weissenberger. Read more about Dr Weissenberger here ) Chronic kidney disease (CKD), commonly also known as chronic renal disease, is a progressive, and generally permanent, loss of kidney function over a period of months or years. If a permanent loss of more the one-third of kidney function oc ... Read on »

Kidney Infarctions by P.Allen Jones Posted Mon 18 Apr 2011 12:00am One complication of Sickle-cell disease is Sickle-cell nephropathy and chronic renal failure. Nephropathy is caused by the long term usage of analgesics (pain medicines). These pain medicines include aspirin, acetaminophen, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. Over use of pain medicines can cause a form of nephrop ... Read on »

NIH Researchers Identify New Marker to Predict Progressive Kidney Failure, Death by Medline Plus Posted Tue 14 Jun 2011 5:11pm A high level of a hormone that regulates phosphate is associated with an increased risk of kidney failure and death among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Miami and funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digesti ... Read on »

Anemia in Kidney Failure and Dialysis Patients by julius Patient Expert

Posted Mon 16 Nov 2009 10:02pm Most of us already know that our kidneys filter the waste from the food we eat. But few are aware that waste filtration is only one of the numerous jobs our kidneys perform in our body. It also produces hormones that regulates blood pressure , among other things. But do you know that the kidneys are also responsible for our body’s production of ... Read on »