A progressive, usually irreversible loss of kidney function over months or years, most commonly caused by diabetes mellitus and hypertension, leading in its most advanced stage (kidney failure) to a buildup of waste and fluid that is fatal without dialysis or transplantation. The English physician Richard Bright provided the first systematic clinical description of chronic kidney disease in 1827, correlating dropsy, protein in the urine, and diseased kidneys found at autopsy; the condition was known as Bright's disease for much of the following century before modern nephrology reorganized it around kidney function itself rather than a single eponymous syndrome. Dialysis, developed as a practical treatment from the 1940s onward, is this atlas's own separately held treatment entity for the disease's most advanced stage.
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Condition Classchronic, non-communicable 3 First DescribedMarks Richard Bright's 1827 clinical description correlating dropsy, proteinuria and diseased kidneys, the first systematic account of the condition later generalized as chronic kidney disease; modern staging and terminology date to the early 2000s. PrevalenceChronic kidney disease affects an estimated 10 percent of the global adult population and is among the leading causes of death worldwide, according to World Health Organization data. 4 Classification
Body SystemSourced to the subject's own account ICD-10 ChapterXVIII: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified 2 Communicable or Non-communicableSourced to the subject's own account Transmission RouteSourced to the subject's own account Causative Agent
Causative Agent (category)Sourced to the subject's own accountIdiopathic / Multifactorial 1 Chronic Kidney Disease
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Home hemodialysis is a treatment option for end-stage chronic kidney disease.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of long-term kidney disease, defined by the sustained presence of abnormal kidney function and/or abnormal kidney structure.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of long-term kidney disease, defined by the sustained presence of abnormal kidney function and/or abnormal kidney structure.
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Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD).
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Who first described chronic kidney disease systematically?
Richard Bright, in 1827.
The English physician Richard Bright provided the first systematic clinical description in 1827, correlating dropsy, protein in the urine, and diseased kidneys found at autopsy.
What was chronic kidney disease once called?
Bright's disease.
It was known as Bright's disease for much of the following century, before modern nephrology reorganized it around kidney function itself.
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