Living with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

"What I tell my patients about...........

Blood and urine tests
Chronic Kidney Disease
A kidney biopsy
Sex and renal failure
Kidney disease in pregnancy
Renal PatientView system

Renal Replacement Therapy:

"What I tell my patients about...........

Conservative management of established kidney failure
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
Creating a fistula
Temporary neckline access for haemodialysis
Haemodialysis
Home haemodialysis
Children undergoing haemodialysis
Reducing infection risks during haemodialysis
Kidney transplantation
Donating a Kidney
Living kidney donation
Pancreas transplantation
Renal transplants in children

Specific Kidney related problems:

"What I tell my patients about...........

Diabetes and kidney failure
Diabetes
Disability Living Allowance
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Hypertension
Interstitial nephritis
Intravenous iron therapy
Kidney and bladder problems detected before birth
Kidney stones
Membranous nephropathy
Microscopic haematuria (‘dipstick haematuria’)
Nephrotic syndrome in adults
OTC medicines
Polycystic kidney disease
Reflux nephropathy
Renovascular disease
UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections) and reflux in children
Vasculitis

MORE FACT SHEETS

Further reading:

Factsheets about kidney failure and treatment from Kidney Research UK click here
 

Further reading:

This links to the National Kidney Federation UK and really is a must. It if full of relevant information from understanding the kidneys and dialysis to holiday tips for kidney patients to a guide on UK state benefits and a huge amount more. Click here
 

Many more leaflets from the National kidney Foundation (an American site)

Click here

Many more leaflets from the Renal Resource Centre (an Australian site)

• Click here See the menu on the left

• This site also offers a whole book on kidneys, kidney failure and the treatment of it (PDF format - this a big file = 22MB) Click here