Nephropathy

Nephropathy is the medical term for diseases of the kidney or renal function.

The term is used primarily for non-flammable, for example toxic or hereditary renal damage, such as:

Analgesic nephropathy: by long -standing abuse of certain analgesics ( " phenacetin kidney ").
Chronic allograft: a frequently caused by certain immunosuppressive loss of function of a kidney transplant after a kidney transplant.
Diabetic nephropathy: a late complication after years of diabetes mellitus. Diabetic nephropathy is not a clearly defined disease, but the sum of various changes that can occur in the kidneys in the wake of the diabetic condition: inflammation, vascular changes, diseases of the filter apparatus of the kidney.
Hypertensive nephropathy: not rarely lead to kidney disease increases in blood pressure, which in turn can lead to further kidney damage.
Balkan nephropathy: an endemic occurring in some regions of the Balkans chronic toxic kidney disease that is mainly caused by aristolochic.
HIV - associated nephropathy: a synergistically promoted by the HIV virus kidney disease
Epidemic nephropathy: a problem caused by infection with the Puumala virus acute renal failure

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