Kidney and Urologic Diseases

A-Z list of Topics and Titles

A

• Acidosis (See Renal Tubular Acidosis)
• Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease
• African Americans and Kidney Disease
• Albumin (See Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio (UACR) (for patients))
• Albuminuria (See Proteinuria)
• Albuminuria and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Alport Syndrome
• Amyloidosis and Kidney Disease
• Analgesic Nephropathy: Painkillers and the Kidneys
• Anatomy of the Kidneys
• Anatomy of the Urinary System
• Anemia and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Anemia in Kidney Disease and Dialysis
• Anemia of Inflammation and Chronic Disease
• Angiotensin-converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors (See High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease)
• Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) (See High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease)
• Arteriovenous (AV) Fistula (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
• Arteriovenous (AV) Graft (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
• Artificial Kidney (See Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Hemodialysis)
• Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: NIH Research Timelines) (from the National Institutes of Health)

B

• Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
• Biopsy of the Kidneys
• Biopsy of the Prostate
• Bladder and the Urinary Tract
• Bladder Control for Women
• Blood Glucose Control and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Blood in the Urine
• Blood Pressure
• Blood Pressure Control and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) (from MedlinePlus)
• Bone Disease of Kidney Failure
• BPH (See Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia)
• BUN (See Blood Urea Nitrogen)

C

• Calcitriol (See Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder)
• Cardiovascular Disease and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Childhood Kidney Stones
• Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome
• Children and Kidney Disease
• Children At Risk for Kidney Disease
• Child's Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Diet: Assessment, Management, and Treatment (PDF, 4.89 MB) * (for health care professionals)
• Chronic Kidney Disease and Drug Dosing: Information for Providers (for health care professionals)
• Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: NIH Research Timelines) (from the National Institutes of Health)
• Chronic Kidney Disease and Medicines: What You Need to Know
• Chronic Kidney Disease and Nutrition (for health care professionals)
• Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder
• Chronic Kidney Disease: What Does it Mean for Me?
• Collaborate with a Nephrologist (for health care professionals)
• Complications in Kidney Disease
• Complications of Kidney Failure
• Creatinine (See Quick Reference on UACR and GFR) (for health care professionals)
• Cystinuria (See Kidney Stones in Adults)
• Cystitis (Easy-to-Read)
• Cystocele: Fallen Bladder
• Cystoscopy and Ureteroscopy
• Cysts

D

• Daily Bladder Diary
• DI (See Diabetes Insipidus)
• Diabetes and Kidney Disease
• Diabetes Insipidus (DI)
• Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases
• Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases
• Dialysis
• Dialyzer (See Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Hemodialysis)
• Dictionary, Kidney Diseases
• Dictionary, Urologic Diseases
• Diet and Lifestyle Changes for People with Kidney Disease
• Diet for Hemodialysis
• Diet for Kidney Stone Prevention
• Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases Organizations
• Diurnal Enuresis (See Urinary Incontinence in Children)
• Drug Information (from MedlinePlus)

E

• Easy-to-Read Publications
• Eating and Kidney and Urologic Diseases
• Eating Right for Kidney Health: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 292 KB) *
• Eat Right to Feel Right on Hemodialysis
• Ectopic Kidney
• ED (See Erectile Dysfunction)
• eGFR (for health care professionals)
• End-stage Renal Disease
• Enuresis in Children (See Urinary Incontinence in Children)
• Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
• Erection Problems
• Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) (for health care professionals)
• Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (for patients)
• Explaining Your Kidney Test Results: A Tear-off Pad for Clinical Use (for health care professionals)

F

• Fallen Bladder
• The Family Reunion Health Guide
• The Family Reunion Health Guide (Informational Card) (PDF, 245 KB) *
• Federal Response to CKD
• Financial Help for Treatment of Kidney Failure
• Finding Strength in Community~ Living a Full Life on Dialysis (Adapted for American Indians and Alaska Natives)
• Fistula (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
• Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (See Glomerular Diseases)
• For People with Diabetes or High Blood Pressure: Get Checked for Kidney Disease
• Frequently Asked Kidney Disease Questions (for patients)
• Functional Status & Quality of Life Issues (for health care professionals)

G

• Getting a New Kidney: Facts about Kidney Transplants (PDF, 440 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
• Getting an Expanded-Donor Kidney (PDF, 187 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
• GFR
• Give the Gift of Life: Become an Organ Donor (Adapted for American Indians and Alaska Natives)
• Glomerular Diseases
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Calculators for Adults and Children (Online Tool) (for health care professionals)
• Glomerulonephritis (See Glomerular Diseases)
• Glomerulosclerosis (See Glomerular Diseases)
• Glossary, Kidney Failure
• Goodpasture Syndrome
• Growth Failure in Children with Kidney Disease

H

• HD (See Home Hemodialysis)
• Hematuria: Blood in the Urine
• Hemodialysis
• Hemodialysis Dose and Adequacy
• Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Children (HUS)
• Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP)
• High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease
• Home Hemodialysis (HD)
• How to Read a Food Label: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 179 KB) *
• HSP (See Henoch-Schönlein Purpura)
• HUS (See Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Children)
• Hyperoxaluria (See Kidney Stones in Adults)
• Hypertension

I

• IC/PBS (See Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome)
• IgA Nephropathy
• Imaging of the Urinary Tract
• Imaging Studies, Kidney Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
• Imaging Studies, Urologic Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)
• Impotence
• Immunizations and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Incontinence (Loss of Bladder Control)
• Incontinence in Children
• Incontinence in Men
• Incontinence in Women
• Infection, Bladder
• Infection, Kidney
• Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS)
• Is My Child at Risk for Kidney Disease?
• Is Your Child at Risk for Kidney Disease? (Poster)

K

• Kegel Exercise Tips
• Keep Your Kidneys Healthy
• Kidney Biopsy
• Kidney Cysts
• Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure
• Kidney Disease Basics
• Kidney Disease Education (for health care professionals)
• Kidney Disease in Children
• Kidney Disease of Diabetes
• Kidney Diseases Overview
• Kidney Disease Research Updates (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
• Kidney Disease Risk Factors
• Kidney Disease Statistics for the United States
• Kidney Diseases Diagnostic Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
• The Kidney Diseases Dictionary
• Kidney Diseases Research Materials (for health care professionals)
• Kidney Disease: What African Americans Need to Know
• Kidney Dysplasia
• Kidney Failure
• Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That's Right for You
• Kidney Failure: Eat Right to Feel Right on Hemodialysis
• The Kidney Failure Glossary
• Kidney Failure Series
• Kidney Failure: What to Expect
• Kidney Function
• Kidney Infection (See Pyelonephritis: Kidney Infection)
• The Kidneys and How They Work
• Kidney Stone Prevention Diet
• Kidney Stones
• Kidney Stones (Easy-to-Read)
• Kidney Stones in Adults
• Kidney Stones in Children
• Kidney Sundays: A Toolkit-A Guide for Faith-Based Communities on Making the Kidney Connection
• Kidney Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
• Kidney Transplantation

L

• Laboratory Tests, Kidney Diseases
• Laboratory Tests, Urologic Diseases
• Loss of Bladder Control
• Low-literacy Kidney Publications
• Lupus Nephritis

M

• Make the Kidney Connection
• Make the Kidney Connection (Informational Card) (PDF, 244.60 KB) *
• Malnutrition and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Manage Patients With CKD (for health care professionals)
• MCDK (See Kidney Dysplasia)
• Medical Tests for Kidney Function
• Medical Tests for Prostate Problems
• Medicines and Kidney Disease
• Medicines for Keeping Your New Kidney Healthy (PDF, 255 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
• Medullary Sponge Kidney (MSK)
• Membranous Nephropathy (See Glomerular Diseases)
• Mineral and Bone Disorders and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Mineral and Bone Disorder of Chronic Kidney Disease
• Minimal Change Disease (See Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome)
• Monitor CKD Progression (for health care professionals)
• Monitoring Your Kidney Health
• MSK (See Medullary Sponge Kidney)
• Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney (MCDK) (See Kidney Dysplasia)

N

• National Kidney Disease Education Program: Reducing Disparities. Improving Care. A Summary Report (PDF, 3.05 MB) *
• Nephrology Referral Form (Online Tool) (PDF, 118 KB) * (for health care professionals)
• Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults
• Nephrotic Syndrome in Children
• Nerve Disease and Bladder Control
• Neurogenic Bladder (See Sexual and Urologic Problems of Diabetes)
• Newsletters, Kidney and Urologic (periodic e-newsletters for health care professionals)
• NIDDK Prostate Research Strategic Plan (CD)
• NIDDK Prostate Research Strategic Plan (PDF, 18 MB) *
• NIDDK Research Progress Report and Strategic Plan for Pediatric Urology
• Nocturnal Enuresis (See Urinary Incontinence in Children)
• Nutrition and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Nutrition and Kidney Diseases
• Nutrition for Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults
• Nutrition for Chronic Kidney Disease in Children
• Nutrition for Early Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults

O

• Organizations, Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases
• Overactive Bladder (See Urinary Incontinence in Women)
• Overcoming Bladder Disease: A Strategic Plan for Research (PDF, 1.05 MB) *
• Overview of Kidney Diseases in Children
• Oxalate (See Kidney Stones in Adults)

P

• Painful Bladder Syndrome
• Painkillers and the Kidneys
• Pediatric Kidney Disease (for health care professionals)
• Pelvic Floor Exercises
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Peritoneal Dialysis Dose and Adequacy
• Pessary
• Peyronie's Disease
• Phosphate-Binding Medications and CKD (for health care professionals)
• Phosphorus: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 530 KB) *
• PKD (See Polycystic Kidney Disease)
• Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
• Potassium: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 140 KB) *
• Prepare Patients for Renal Replacement Therapy (for health care professionals)
• Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your kidneys healthy
• Progress and Priorities: Renal Disease Research Plan (PDF, 278 KB) *
• Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Prostate Problems
• Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
• Prostatitis: Disorders of the Prostate
• Protein: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 112 KB) *
• Proteinuria
• Pyelonephritis: Kidney Infection

R

• RAS (See Renal Artery Stenosis)
• Renal Artery Stenosis (RAS)
• Renal Cysts
• Renal Dialysis (See Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That’s Right for You)
• Renal Disease Research Plan (PDF, 278 KB) *
• Renal Dysplasia
• Renal Osteodystrophy (See Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder)
• Renal Transplantation
• Renal Tubular Acidosis (RTA)
• Renovascular Hypertension (RVH) (See Renal Artery Stenosis)
• Research Materials, Kidney Diseases (for health care professionals)
• Research Materials, Urologic Diseases (for health care professionals)
• Research Needs in Pediatric Kidney Disease: 2000 and Beyond (PDF, 282 KB) *
• Research Updates in Kidney Diseases (See Kidney Disease Research Updates) (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
• Research Updates in Urologic Diseases (See Urologic Diseases Research Updates) (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
• RTA (See Renal Tubular Acidosis)
• RVH (See Renal Artery Stenosis)

S

• School & Family Problems of Children With Kidney Failure
• Sexual and Urologic Problems of Diabetes
• Simple Kidney Cysts
• Slow CKD Progression and Reduce Complications (for health care professionals)
• Sodium: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 1.72 MB) *
• Solitary Kidney
• Spanish Language Kidney Disease Information
• Spanish, Kidney and Urologic Diseases Publications
• Sponge Kidney (See Medullary Sponge Kidney)
• Statistics, Kidney and Urologic Diseases
• Stoma (See Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion)
• Strategic Plan for Pediatric Urology: NIDDK Research Progress Report (PDF, 9.7 MB) *
• Stress Incontinence (See Urinary Incontinence in Women)
• Suggestions for Laboratory Professionals (for health care professionals)

T

• Testing for Kidney Disease
• Tests for Kidney Function
• Tests for Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
• Tests for Urinary Problems
• Transplantation, Kidney
• Treat Complications and Comorbidities (for health care professionals)
• Treatment, Kidney Failure
• Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure in Children
• Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Hemodialysis
• Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Peritoneal Dialysis
• Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Transplantation

U

• UACR (See Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio) (PDF, 242 KB) * (for health care professionals)
• Ureteroscopy
• Ureterostomy (See Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion)
• Urethral Stricture (See Urinary Retention)
• Urinary Incontinence in Children
• Urinary Incontinence in Men
• Urinary Incontinence in Women
• Urinary Retention
• Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
• Urinary Tract Infections (Easy-to-Read)
• Urinary Tract Infections in Adults
• Urinary Tract Infections in Children
• Urinary Tract Infections in Children (Easy-to-Read)
• Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio (UACR) (for health care professionals)
• Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio (UACR) (for patients)
• Urine Blockage in Newborns
• Urodynamic Testing
• Urologic Diseases Diagnostic Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)
• The Urologic Diseases Dictionary
• Urologic Diseases in America
• Urologic Disease in Children
• Urologic Diseases Overview
• Urologic Diseases Research Materials (for health care professionals)
• Urologic Diseases Research Updates (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
• Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion
• UTIs (See Urinary Tract Infections)

V

• Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
• Venous Catheter (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
• Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR)
• Vitamin D Supplements and CKD (for health care professionals)
• VUR (See Vesicoureteral Reflux)

W

• What African Americans with Diabetes or High Blood Pressure Need to Know: Get Checked for Kidney Disease
• What I need to know about Bladder Control for Women (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about Erection Problems (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about Kidney Stones (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about My Child's Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about My Child's Urinary Tract Infection (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
• What I need to know about Urinary Tract Infections (Easy-to-Read)
• Working with Your Health Care Providers

X

• X ray, Kidney Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
• X ray, Urologic Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)

Y

• Your Kidney Test Results (PDF, 109 KB) *
• Your Urinary System and How It Works

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