The initial decline of renal function is asymptom- atic, and clinical manifestations of kidney failure occur late in the course of the disease. Loss of renal function, however, is variable and can be relentless even despite optimal medical therapy. Definitions of kidney disease have therefore ...
chronic kidney disease A condition defined as either: (1) Kidney damage for = 3 months, defined by structural or functional renal abnormalities with or without a reduced glomerular filtration rate, manifest by either: • Pathological abnormalities, or ...
Now more commonly classified as chronic kidney disease and is listed as stages based on the patient's level of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) which is a measure of filtering capacity of the kidneys. Stage 1 means normal filtering function of the kidney but delineates those patients that are ...
Chronic Kidney Disease: Whom to Screen and How to Treat, Part 1: Definition, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Testing. Southern Medical Journal, February 2010, Vol. 103, No. 2.Brosnahan G, Fraer M. Chronic kidney disease: whom to screen and how to treat, part 1: definition, epidemiology, and...
Medical Wikipedia Related to Chronic disease:Chronic kidney disease,Anemia of chronic disease one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from anacutedisease, which speedly terminates. See also:Chronic Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G....
Fertility is known to be impaired more frequently in patients with chronic kidney disease than in the general population. A significant proportion of chronic kidney disease patients may therefore need Medically Assisted Reproduction. The paucity of information about medically assisted reproduction for chroni...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by the presence of kidney damage or an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m², persisting for 3 months or more, irrespective of the cause.[1]CKD is a state of progressive loss of kidney function, ultimatel...
A chronic disease is a disease of long duration. This definition is necessarily ambiguous, because every disease has a particular duration, and thus it is a matter of judgment whether a disease is considered of ‘long’ duration; it cannot be approximated by a specific endpoint in time. A ch...
Cerebral small vessel disease can be identified using magnetic resonance imaging, and includes white matter hyperintensities, lacunar infarcts, cerebral microbleeds, and brain atrophy. Cerebral small vessel disease and chronic kidney disease share many r
This definition simplifies diagnosis and helps to increase public awareness of kidney disease. The prevalence of stage 3 to 5 CKD in Japan was predicted to be 19.1 million patients among the Japanese general adult population of 103.2 million (7), while stage 4 to 5 patients were predicted to ...