Disease class: Kidney diseases
Showing posts with label nephrology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nephrology. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 July 2019
Saturday, 6 July 2019
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
[Nephrology] Introduction
Nephrologists specialise in diseases of the kidneys.
There is significant overlap with urology.
Ancient Greek -λογία -logia = study
There is significant overlap with urology.
Etymology
Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephros) = kidneyAncient Greek -λογία -logia = study
History taking
Physical examination
Common problems:
- Fatigue
- Anasarca
- Anaemia
Kidney diseases
Diseases:
- Acute kidney injury (AKI)
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- Hypertensive nephropathy
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Pyelonephritis
- Kidney cancer
- Lupus nephritis
- Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease (anti-GBM disease) (Goodpasture's syndrome)
- Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) : This syndrome is only suitable for nephrology intervention, if the patient is scheduled to receive a liver transplant.
- Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
- Alport syndrome
Friday, 14 June 2019
Inborn errors renal tubular transport
Disease class: Kidney diseases
Types
- acidosis, Renal tubular
- Bartter syndrome
- Dent diseas
- Fanconi syndrome
- Gitelman syndrome
- glycosuria, Renal
- hypophosphataemia, Familial
- Liddle syndrome
- Oculocerebrorenal syndrome
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism
- Renal aminoacidurias
Renal hypertension
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