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Kidney Failure

End Stage Renal Disease is total kidney failure, when the kidney can no longer filter waste and the only option is a kidney transplant or dialysis.

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How can type 2 diabetes cause kidney damage?
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by Healthy Humans
Uncontrolled diabetes results in high circulating blood glucose (sugar) levels, and this injures the small blood vessels (microvasculature) of the kidney (especially in the filtering portion of the kidney, the glomerulus). The damage to the kidney blood vessels starts right away with high blood sugars, but it can take many years of uncontrolled diabetes to produce enough damage to the kidney that ...
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How is hemolytic uremic syndrome treated?
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by Cleveland Clinic
Treatments, which consist of maintaining normal salt and water levels in the body, are aimed at easing the immediate symptoms and preventing further problems. A child may need a transfusion of red blood cells delivered through an intravenous, or IV, tube. In severe cases, several sessions of dialysis, a blood-cleansing treatment, may be required to temporarily take over the kidneys' job of filter...
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Can you actually drink too much water?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
Water intoxication or sickness from drinking too much water occurs where you exceed your capacity to get rid of water. Your capacity to excrete water is normally about 1000 milliliters per hour (which is about 4 glasses), so if you drink more than this, you will dilute your body salts. If the capacity to excrete water is impaired, then even lesser rates of consumption will result in low sodium co...
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What happens before kidney transplant surgery?
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by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
During the waiting period before transplantation, patients on the wait list must carry a cell phone so that hospital personnel can immediately reach them when a donor organ becomes available. When a deceased donor organ becomes available, the hospital must respond to the offer very quickly; if a patient is unavailable or unable to have the transplant (due to infection, for instance), then the org...
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What happens during kidney donation surgery?
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by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Some centers remove a donor's kidney using conventional surgical procedures with an open incision, but all kidney removal procedures (nephrectomies) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are performed laparoscopically. For anatomical reasons, the left kidney is usually the one that is removed for transplantation. Surgeons perform the procedure using tiny instruments that are inserted into three or fou...
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What is an angiomyolipoma?
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by Dr. William D. Knopf
An angiomyolipoma is a benign (noncancer) tumor of fat and muscle tissue that usually is found in the kidney. Angiomyolipomas rarely cause symptoms, but may bleed or grow large enough to be painful or cause kidney failure. They are common in patients with tuberous sclerosis (a genetic disorder in which benign tumors grow in the kidneys, brain, eyes, heart, lungs, and skin, causing seizures, menta...
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What is granulomatosis?
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by Cleveland Clinic
Granulomatosis is a serious vascular disease that affects organs such as the kidneys. When this disease causes kidney failure, requiring the patient to undergo dialysis three times a day, every day, the doctor recommends kidney transplantation. Learn more about granulomatosis.
What are arteriovenous grafts?
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by Cleveland Clinic
In the United States, more than 300,000 people with failing kidneys need hemodialysis to clean their blood several times a week. For hemodialysis, doctors prepare the arm for repeated needle insertions. One approach is to surgically implant a tube called an arteriovenous graft, or AV graft, that connects a vein and an artery. However, blood clots develop at the connection, causing narrowing of th...
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What are the health disparities between races for kidney transplants?
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by Cleveland Clinic
The following disparities occur between races for kidney transplantation: African Americans are six times more likely to develop kidney failure from hypertension and account for 32% of all treated patients. African Americans are more likely to reject transplanted organs, and less likely to receive kidney transplants. Transplant success rates increase when organs are matched between members of...
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What should I do to reduce the risk of diabetic kidney disease?
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Currently, there is no clinical genetic testing approach for predicting the development of diabetic kidney disease. It is critical to optimize blood sugar control and achieve supranormal blood pressure (BP) control (less than 120/70). Learn more about how to reduce the risk of diabetic kidney disease.
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