How to check kidney blood tests at home – Patient Knows Best We recommend your join an excellent free web service called Patient Knows Best (PKB). It shows your latest blood test results. It can also show (for some people), your letters and medicines, plus information about your diagnoses and treatment. You can also set up […]
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How CKD is defined Keep track of your kidney data with PKB It is surprisingly difficult to come up with a simple was of conclusively diagnosing CKD. This is partly as it is quite hard to define. This is partly because chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not a diagnosis. It is a syndrome (group of
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Kidney blood tests explained Keep track of your kidney data with PKB In this article, we will explain the commonly measured kidney blood tests, urine and other tests. Minerals Kidney function tests Other electrolytes Liver tests Bone tests Lipids (fats) Haematology (blood). Minerals Sodium (Na) Sodium is a mineral in the blood that is involved
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Debates in nephrology: CKD staging system Introduction In 2002, the US National Kidney Foundation (NKF) released a new classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) (Levey et al, 2003). This classification system represented a new conceptual framework for the diagnosis of CKD, moving away from an diagnosis-based system to a scheme based on disease severity defined
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When to start should dialysis This a controversial area [“not another one. Is it complicated (again) docs?!” CKDEx Ed] Yup, sure is. And doctors tend to vary with regard to recommending an earlier or later start to dialysis. The ‘earlier start’ group tend to want to avoid the risks of an emergency start (e.g. at
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Jonah Lomu (12 May 1975 – 18 November 2015) was a New Zealand professional rugby union player. Lomu is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in the history of the sport. Standing 6 foot 5 inches and weighing 119 kilograms, Lomu was famed for his unprecedented speed, strength and agility.
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Aditi with her mother and father Eight-year-old Aditi Shankar has become the first child in the UK to receive a special type of kidney transplant that does not require her to take long-term drugs to stop organ rejection. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital say the breakthrough was made possible by reprogramming her immune system
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There is little information available that assesses whether the likelihood of acquiring CKD is the same in the different countries of Europe. The data below is taken from one study (Bruck et al, 2016). The numbers of people with CKD stages 1-5, varied from 3.3% of the population in Norway to 17.3% in northeast Germany.
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There is not much good research that enables us to answer this question. There is one study (Baek et al, 2012) that tells us something. The data below is taken from that study. 347 patients with stage 3 CKD were studied for ten years. They were enrolled between January 1997 and December 1999, and were
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How does diabetes damage the kidneys (5 ways)? Kidney disease occurs in patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, usually after at least 10 years of the disease. Diabetes can affect the kidneys in five ways: Diabetic nephropathy Renovascular disease Urinary tract infection Papillary necrosis Other kidney conditions. We will now go
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