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  2. Reflux nephropathy - Wikipedia

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    Reflux nephropathy is a direct consequence of VUR or other urologic congenital anomalies stemming from chronic high-pressure sterile urine reflux and often leads to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the early childhood.

  3. Vesicoureteral reflux - Wikipedia

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    Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), also known as vesicoureteric reflux, is a condition in which urine flows retrograde, or backward, from the bladder into one or both ureters and then to the renal calyx or kidneys.

  4. List of ICD-9 codes 580–629: diseases of the genitourinary ...

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    593.7 Vesicoureteral reflux, unspec. 593.73 Vesicoureteral reflux w/ nephropathy; 594 Calculus of lower urinary tract; 595 Cystitis. 595.0 Cystitis, acute; 595.1 Cystitis, interstitial, chronic. 595.82 Cystitis, irradiation; 596 Other disorders of bladder. 596.0 Bladder neck obstruction; 596.4 Atony of bladder; 596.5 Other functional disorders ...

  5. Chronic kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    Mesoamerican nephropathy, is "a new form of kidney disease that could be called agricultural nephropathy". [46] A high and so-far unexplained number of new cases of CKD, referred to as the Mesoamerican nephropathy, has been noted among male workers in Central America, mainly in sugarcane fields in the lowlands of El Salvador and Nicaragua.

  6. Pyelonephritis - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical: any structural abnormalities in the urinary tract, vesicoureteral reflux (urine from the bladder flowing back into the ureter), kidney stones, urinary tract catheterization, ureteral stents or drainage procedures (e.g., nephrostomy), pregnancy, neurogenic bladder (e.g., due to spinal cord damage, spina bifida or multiple sclerosis ...

  7. Renal tubular acidosis - Wikipedia

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    Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) is a medical condition that involves an accumulation of acid in the body due to a failure of the kidneys to appropriately acidify the urine. [1] In renal physiology, when blood is filtered by the kidney, the filtrate passes through the tubules of the nephron, allowing for exchange of salts, acid equivalents, and other solutes before it drains into the bladder as urine.

  8. Acute tubular necrosis - Wikipedia

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    Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is a medical condition involving the death of tubular epithelial cells that form the renal tubules of the kidneys.Because necrosis is often not present, the term acute tubular injury (ATI) is preferred by pathologists over the older name acute tubular necrosis (ATN). [1]

  9. Obstructive uropathy - Wikipedia

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    Obstructive uropathy is a structural or functional hindrance of normal urine flow, [1] sometimes leading to renal dysfunction (obstructive nephropathy). It is a very broad term, and does not imply a location or cause.