Health and Medical Guide to Kidney and Urinary System Disorders Kidney Failure Health information topics about Kidney Failure: Anatomy/Physiology 1. Kidneys and Urinary Tract Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/kidneys_urinary.html 2. Your Kidneys and How They Work National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yourkidneys/index.htm Children 1. Kidney (Renal) Failure American Urological Association http://www.urologyhealth.org/pediatric/index.cfm?cat=08&topic=120 2. When Your Child Has a Chronic Kidney Disease Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/kidney/chronic_kidney_disease.html 3. School & Family Problems of Children with National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/childkidneydiseases/school_fami... 4. Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure in Children National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/childkidneydiseases/treatment_m... Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Kidney Failure, Chronic National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D007676&recruiting... 2. ClinicalTrials.gov: Kidney Failure National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D017095&recruiting... Coping 1. Coping Effectively: A Guide for Patients and Their National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/coping.pdf Diagnosis/Symptoms 1. Renal Biopsy UpToDate http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.asp?file=kidn_dis/6752 2. Kidney and Urinary Tract Function, Disorders, and American Association for Clinical Chemistry http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/kidney.html 3. Medical Tests of Kidney Function National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kidneytests/index.htm Dictionaries/Glossaries 1. Kidney Failure Glossary National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/glossary/index.htm 2. Kidney Diseases Dictionary National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kdictionary/index.htm Directories 1. Find a Urologist American Urological Association http://urologyhealth.org/find_urologist/ 2. Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases Organiza National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kuorg/ Disease Management 1. BUN Test American Association for Clinical Chemistry http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/bun/test.html Financial Issues 1. Financial Help for Treatment of Kidney Failure National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/financialhelp/index.htm 2. Permanent Kidney Failure/End-Stage Renal Disease Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/cob/esrd/esrd.asp Law and Policy 1. Medicare Coverage of Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Tr Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/esrdCoverage.pdf 2. Medigap Policies for People Under Age 65 with a Di Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/medigap/under65.asp National Institutes of Health 1. Kidney Disease Overview National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/patients/index.htm Newsletters/Print Publications 1. Renal Flash American Association of Kidney Patients http://www.aakp.org/AAKP/renalflash.htm 2. E-Kidney: Online Newsletter of the NKF National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/general/ekidney/index.cfm 3. AAKP Kidney Beginnings: The Electronic Newsletter American Association of Kidney Patients http://www.aakp.org/AAKP/kbten.htm Organizations 1. National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/ 2. National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/ 3. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and K http://www.niddk.nih.gov/ 4. Life Options Rehabilitation Program http://www.lifeoptions.org/ 5. American Kidney Fund http://www.akfinc.org/ 6. American Association of Kidney Patients http://www.aakp.org/ Overviews 1. Kidney Failure Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00280 2. Kidney Failure American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030615/2539ph.html Related Issues 1. Kidney Failure and Cardiovascular Disease American Heart Association http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/108/16/e114.pdf 2. Amyloidosis and Kidney Disease National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/amyloidosis/index.htm 3. Analgesic Nephropathy (Painkillers and the Kidneys National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/analgesicnephropathy/index.htm 4. What Vaccinations Do You Need? National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=122 5. Anemia in Kidney Disease and Dialysis National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/anemia/index.htm 6. Bone Disease in Chronic Kidney Failure National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=49 Specific Conditions 1. JAMA Patient Page: Acute Renal Failure American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZCFVFA09D&sub_... 2. Renal Osteodystrophy National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/renalosteodystrophy/index.htm Statistics 1. Kidney Center Data Profile Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network http://www.optn.org/organDatasource/stateData.asp?type=state&mqsd=1&display... 2. End Stage Renal Disease in the United States National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/general/news/factsheet.cfm?id=38 3. Kidney and Urologic Disease Statistics for the Uni National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kustats/index.htm Treatment 1. Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That's National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/choosingtreatment/index.htm 2. Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Transplantat National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/transplant/index.htm 3. Kidney Transplant National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=86   Urology / Nephrology News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Dudley Improves Renal Patient Management Via Long-term MES Partnership 30 Jul 2010 at 6:00am Russells Hall Hospital, part of The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is benefiting from greater efficiency in renal patient management with the installation of new specialist software. The eMEDRenal application from Mediqal H.I. was installed as part of Dudley's 15-year IT services Managed Equipment Service (MES) agreement with Siemens Healthcare. Siemens Healthcare and Mediqal H... 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