Glomerular Disease
Glomerular Disease: Introduction
Glomerular Disease:
Many diseases affect kidney function by
attacking the tiny units within the kidney where blood is cleaned.
Glomerular diseases include many ... more about Glomerular Disease.
Glomerular Disease: Condition affecting the glomerules in the kidney.
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Symptoms of Glomerular Disease
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Misdiagnosis and Glomerular Disease
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed.
The best known, irritable bowel syndrome, is over-diagnosed, whereas...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called ...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but can also kill the "good"...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning).
In fact, it's more likely to be an infectious...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over...read more »
Interstitial cystitis an under-diagnosed bladder condition: The medical
condition of interstitial cystitic is a bladder condition that can be...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms ...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the better known...read more »
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Article Excerpts about Glomerular Disease
Many diseases affect kidney function by
attacking the tiny units within the kidney where blood is cleaned.
Glomerular diseases include many conditions with a variety of genetic and
environmental causes, but they fall into two major categories:
- Glomerulonephritis (gloh-MAIR-yoo-loh-neh-FRY-tis) describes the
inflammation of the membrane tissue in the kidney that serves as a
filter, separating wastes and extra fluid from the blood.
- Glomerulosclerosis (gloh-MAIR-yoo-loh-skleh-ROH-sis) describes the
scarring or hardening of the tiny blood vessels within the kidney.
Although glomerulonephritis and glomerulosclerosis have
different causes, they can both lead to end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
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Glomerular Diseases: NIDDK)
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