What Is Kidney Failure?
Health Encyclopedia: Acute Kidney Failure
Kidney failure; Renal failure; Renal failure - acute; ARF
Prevention
Treating disorders such as high blood pressure can help prevent acute kidney failure. Unfortunately, prevention is not always possible.
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Expert & Community Posts
Cholesterol and Your Kidneys: A Fatal Connection
By Dr. Kang , Health ExpertChronic kidney disease in itself has been found to be an independent predictor for the development... Read more »
Is Fleet Phosphosoda Safe?
By Todd Eisner , Health Expert...Phospho-Soda not be used in patients with diabetes, kidney problems or congestive heart failure.... Read more »
Common Ulcerative Colitis Questions Answered - Part II
By Todd Eisner , Health Expert...Patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease were considered unsafe for... Read more »
Ask the Expert: Should I be on the Newest High Blood Pressure Medication?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert...lowering long-term risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, aortic or peripheral vascular... Read more »
Cutting healthcare for the sick... WHAT!
By Gina Capone , Health Expert...providing nutritional supplements for people with kidney failure." Are you kidding me? What... Read more »
Health Guide
Renal
The term "renal" refers to the kidney. For example, renal failure means kidney failure. Related topics: Kidney disease Kidney disease - diet ... Read more »End-stage kidney disease
Renal failure - end stage; Kidney failure - end stage; ESRD Prevention Treatment of chronic kidney failure may delay or prevent progression to... Read more »Acute kidney failure
Kidney failure; Renal failure; Renal failure - acute; ARF Treatment Once the cause is found, the goal of treatment is to restore kidney function and prevent fluid... Read more »Chronic renal failure
Kidney failure - chronic; Renal failure - chronic; Chronic renal insufficiency; CRF; Chronic kidney failure Prevention Treatment of the underlying... Read more »Protein electrophoresis: urine
...the urine. Urine albumin is less than 50 mg/dL. What abnormal results mean Kidney failure Decreased kidney function Diabetic nephropathy ... Read more »Images
Medications
...diseases. It is used to treat a certain type of kidney disease in children after other... Read more »
...pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. This medication also reduces... Read more »
...pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. This medication also reduces... Read more »
...pressure (hypertension) and to help protect the kidneys from damage due to diabetes. ... Read more »
...pressure (hypertension) and to help protect the kidneys from damage due to diabetes. It ... Read more »
Related News
Hormone Level Key for Dialysis Patients
August 07, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Monitoring a hormone level in dialysis patients could help doctors determine which patients with kidney failure are at risk for... Read summary »
Big News in Diabetes!
March 05, 2007ST. LOUIS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Nerve damage, kidney failure, vision loss and amputations. These are a few of the many complications people... Read summary »
Dialysis at Home
October 25, 2006INDIANAPOLIS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Teaching fourth grade -- and tutoring at home -- is a full-time job for Chris Dowling. But that, along with... Read summary »
Genes Predict Kidney Disease?
May 18, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire)-- A new study reveals three genes that contain common mutations may put some people at a higher risk for kidney disease. More than... Read summary »
Hypertension Traced to Childhood
June 20, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) Researchers believe high blood pressure can be traced back to a person's childhood. Analyses of blood pressure tracking studies... Read summary »
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