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- The New England Journal of Medicine: Kidney Disease - The Kidney Disease collection covers topics such as renal failure, dialysis, and pathogenesis of nephropathy. Articles may be downloaded for a fee.
- Kidney Directions - Site sponsored by Baxter Healthcare discusses end stage renal disease, acute kidney failure, and chronic kidney failure.
- Feline Kidney Diseases And Kidney Failure In Cats - An information resource for owners of cats diagnosed with kidney disease or feline kidney failure. Includes comprehensive information about the symptoms and diagnosis of kidney failure, and the treatment options available.
- National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) - Provides information about the inheritance, diagnosis and pathological course of the several forms of polycystic kidney diseases, as well as the molecular basis of the adult form.
- Kidneywise Community - A community site for patients with kidney disease or kidney failure. Answers basics kidney function questions and covers kidney treatment and care.
- Polycystic Kidney Disease Message Board - Provides a forum for exchanges between individuals who suffer from polycystic kidney disease.
- The Kidneys and Body Balance. - Where the kidneys are, how they work, and some common kidney problems. Includes a quiz.
- Greif Family Kidney Transplant/Donor Story - Information on the kidney transplant and donation process. Chronicles the kidney donation of Howard Greif to his father Irwin Greif.
- Mayo Clinic: Polycystic Kidney Disease - A description of the disease, and its detection and treatment.
- National Kidney Foundation-Making Lives Better - Information for organ donors and recipients, for patients and professionals, meetings and events and support. An A-Z guide for kidney disease and related conditions.
Wikipedia Articles
- Pelvic kidney - If the kidney does not ascend as it should in normal childhood development it remains in the pelvic area and is called a pelvic kidney, also called an ectopic kidney or a pancake kidney. Often the person with a pelvic kidney will go through their whole life not even knowing they have this condition, unless complications arise for this or a completely different reason, and during investigations the condition is diagnosed.
- National Kidney Research Fund - National Kidney Research Fund is a British medical research charity, founded in 1961, dedicated to the curing of kidney diseases. The organization's priorities are to fund research into kidney disease, to provide financial support for the treatment of kidney disease, and to raise public awareness of gallbladder disease.
- Supernumerary kidney - A supernumerary kidney is an additional kidney to the number usually present in an organism. This often develops as the result of splitting of the nephrogenic blastema, or from separate metanephric blastemas into which partially or completely reduplicated ureteral stalks enter to form separate capsulated kidneys; in some cases the separation of the reduplicated ...
- Kidney transplantation - Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the recipient organ.
- Reniculate kidney - The reniculate kidney is a multi-lobed kidney which has increased surface area for removing toxins from the body more efficiently than a non-lobed kidney. Increased lobes are associated with increased aquatic lifestyle in mammals.