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Kidney disease can be broken up into two types of disease.  Chronic kidney disease occurs over a period of time and the person gradually loses kidney function until they eventually need dialysis... Read more

In order to understand kidney failure, it is a good idea to understand how the kidneys are supposed to work and what they do for our body.  Our kidneys come as a paired set of organs located on the sides of the middle back... Read more

When you have a kidney infection, a condition known as pyelonephritis, you suffer from an infection that has moved up from the bladder and into the kidney organs.  A kidney infection can affect one or both of the kidneys at the same time... Read more

Children with a kidney problem almost always develop the problem at or shortly after birth.  These kidney disorders result from a failure of the urinary tract to develop normally.  One of the most common kidney diseases is called posterior urethral valve obstruction... Read more

Going through a kidney transplant can be difficult at best.  Generally a patient is on dialysis before undergoing the transplant and is on a kidney transplant list... Read more

When you have a symptom of kidney stones, sometimes it will be very obvious to you and other times you will wonder what is going on.  This is because kidney stones tend to be hereditary and they also tend to recur in the same individual... Read more