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 1 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. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
Sources
1. A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC Press
Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationTreated By: Organ Transplantation, Lead sectionQuote, Treated By: Organ Transplantation, Lead section
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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