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  2. Pyelonephritis - Wikipedia

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    Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection. [3] Symptoms most often include fever and flank tenderness. [2] Other symptoms may include nausea, burning with urination, and frequent urination. [2] Complications may include pus around the kidney, sepsis, or kidney failure. [3]

  3. Renal infarction - Wikipedia

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    Complications: Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. [1] Causes: Cardioembolic disease, renal artery injury, and hypercoagulable state. [1] Diagnostic method: Hematuria, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, CT scan. [1] Differential diagnosis: Renal colic and acute pyelonephritis. [1] Frequency: 1.4% (of 14,411) [2]

  4. Acute kidney injury - Wikipedia

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    Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), [1] [2] is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within seven days, [3] as shown by an increase in serum creatinine or a decrease in urine output, or both.

  5. Kidney failure - Wikipedia

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    Kidney failure, also known as renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. [2]

  6. Nephrotic syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Infectious complications: an appropriate course of antibacterial drugs can be taken according to the infectious agent. In addition to these key imbalances, vitamin D and calcium are also taken orally in case the alteration of vitamin D causes severe hypocalcaemia, this treatment has the goal of restoring physiological levels of calcium in the ...

  7. Acute proliferative glomerulonephritis - Wikipedia

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    Acute proliferative glomerulonephritis is a disorder of the small blood vessels of the kidney.It is a common complication of bacterial infections, typically skin infection by Streptococcus bacteria types 12, 4 and 1 but also after streptococcal pharyngitis, for which it is also known as postinfectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) or poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN). [4]

  8. Analgesic nephropathy - Wikipedia

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    Complications of analgesic nephropathy include pyelonephritis [3] and end-stage kidney disease. [4] Risk factors for poor prognosis include recurrent urinary tract infection and persistently elevated blood pressure. [5] Analgesic nephropathy also appears to increase the risk of developing cancers of the urinary system. [6]

  9. Kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    Kidney disease, or renal disease, technically referred to as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is an inflammatory kidney disease and has several types according to the location of the inflammation.