Name: Course: Anatomy and Physiology 1 Instructor: Topic: Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease. Adult Polycystic Kidney disease is also known as Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. ADPKD is the most common genetic cause of chronic renal disease. There is currently no cure for this deadly hereditary disease‚ but a comprehensive understanding of the disease by health care providers is of great importance. Referral to a nephrologist and prompt treatment eliminates health valued complications
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Short Article-Kaiser Permanente Botches Its Kidney Transplant Center Project 1. Classify and describe the problems Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center. What was the role of information systems and information management in these problems? The information technology based problems that Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center are use of paperwork‚ lost records‚ incomplete or incorrect date‚ lack of specific procedures for transferring data‚ no process for tracking or responding
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Kidney Dialysis There are two types of kidney dialysis: Haemodialysis and Peritoneal dialysis Both types carry out the function of the kidney: filtering our blood of metabolic wastes. Kidney dialysis is necessary when someone suffers kidney failure. Failed kidneys cant perform their excretory function‚ but also cant regulate ion concentration‚ PH levels‚ and blood volume. Haemodialysis: (carried out 4 hrs every 2-3 weeks) -patient is connected to dialysis machine by two thing needles inserted
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Chronic Kidney Failure Sharvette Walker Rasmussen College Author Note This Annotated Bibliography is being submitted on June 14‚ 2015‚ for Andrea Wochenske M232/MEA2203 Section 11 Pathophysiology- 2015 Spring Quarter course. RENAL CALCULI TELEVISION BROADCAST 1. (2013‚ September 9). Kidney stones serious for women with other conditions Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/health/kidney-stones-serious-for-women-with-other-conditions/21754828#ixzz3CZjaBA6O. Retrieved from [Television broadcast].
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Because we synthesized the two most common kidney stones‚ calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate‚ we will focus on those two in the discussion of formation‚ treatment‚ and prevention. Calcium stones like calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate stones form when urine is “supersaturated with the constituent ions that comprise the stone” (Figge). This means‚ when urine is supersaturated with calcium and oxalate ion that type of stone is more likely to form. This supersaturation results from the ionic activity
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Feature Acute Kidney Injury: Not Just Acute Renal Failure Anymore? Susan Dirkes‚ RN‚ MSA‚ CCRN Until recently‚ no uniform standard existed for diagnosing and classifying acute renal failure. To clarify diagnosis‚ the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative group stated its consensus on the need for a clear definition and classification system of renal dysfunction with measurable criteria. Today the term acute kidney injury has replaced the term acute renal failure‚ with an understanding that such
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HOW DOES DISEASE AFFECT THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION? * THE KIDNEY There are two kidneys‚ each about the size of a fist‚ located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Each kidney contains up to a million functioning units called nephrons. A nephron consists of a filtering unit of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus attached to a tubule. When blood enters the glomerulus‚ it is filtered and the remaining fluid then passes along the tubule. In the tubule‚ chemicals and
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What is Kidney Cancer? Brittany Elliott University of Phoenix Cancer is one of the most devastating chronic diseases in our world today. Cancer of any form can be deadly‚ and often is not detected early enough for effective treatment. It can invade any organ‚ any part of the body‚ at any time‚ without warning or cause. The most common type of cancer that affects your kidneys is called Renal Cell Carcinoma. The term “renal” refers to kidneys‚ and “Carcinoma” is another term for cancer.
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What is a kidney stone? A kidney stone is a little stone of calcium‚ magnesium‚ or uric acid that has crystallized and precipitates in the renal pelvis (textbook‚ p. 988). Kidney stones can be very painful when having them or trying to pass them. Renal colic or unspecified abdominal pain were the most frequent presenting symptoms of kidney stone disease (Metabolic 3). Then followed by hematuria‚ (Metabolic 4) the presence of blood in the urine. Pediatric urinary stone disease is a relatively infrequent
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body. * Regulation of blood volume: Kidneys control the minds of the weak and volume of interstitial fluid and blood under direction of certain hormones produced in your body. Change in blood volume affects blood pressure‚ so kidneys indirectly affect the blood pressure of the body. * Regulation of erythrocyte production: As kidneys filter blood‚ they are also measuring the oxygen level of the blood. If blood oxygen is reduced‚ cells in the kidney secrete hormone erythropoietin. Erythropoietin
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