This is a comprehensive list of diseases involving the kidney and urinary tract, both common and rare, for patients and physicians. (If you’re interested in a basic introduction to kidney disease, please click here.)
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A List of Kidney Diseases
- Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome (Nephropathic Cystinosis)
- Acute Kidney Failure/Acute Kidney Injury
- Acute Lobar Nephronia
- Acute Phosphate Nephropathy
- Acute Tubular Necrosis
- Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase Deficiency
- Adenovirus Nephritis
- Alport Syndrome
- Amyloidosis
- ANCA Vasculitis Related to Endocarditis and Other Infections
- Angiomyolipoma
- Analgesic Nephropathy
- Anorexia Nervosa and Kidney Disease
- Angiotensin Antibodies and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- APOL1 Mutations
- Apparent Mneralocorticoid Excess Syndrome
- Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy, Chinese Herbal Nephropathy, Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
- Bartter Syndrome
- Beeturia
- β-Thalassemia Renal Disease
- Bile Cast Nephropathy
- BK Polyoma Virus Nephropathy in the Native Kidney
- Bladder Rupture
- Bladder Sphincter Dyssynergia
- Bladder Tamponade
- Border-Crossers' Nephropathy
- C1q Nephropathy
- Cardiorenal syndrome
- CFHR5 nephropathy
- Cholesterol Emboli
- Churg–Strauss syndrome
- Collapsing Glomerulopathy, Collapsing Glomerulopathy Related to CMV
- Conorenal syndrome (Mainzer-Saldino Syndrome or Saldino-Mainzer Disease)
- Contrast Nephropathy
- Copper Sulpfate Intoxication
- Cortical Necrosis
- Cryoglobuinemia
- Crystal-Induced Acute Kidney injury
- Cystic Kidney Disease, Acquired
- Cystinuria
- Dasatinib-Induced Nephrotic-Range Proteinuria
- Dense Deposit Disease (MPGN Type 2)
- Dent Disease (X-linked Recessive Nephrolithiasis)
- Diabetes and Diabetic Kidney Disease
- Diabetes Insipidus
- Duplicated Ureter
- EAST syndrome
- Ectopic Ureter
- Edema, Swelling
- Erdheim-Chester Disease
- Fabry’s Disease
- Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia
- Fanconi Syndrome
- Fibronectin Glomerulopathy
- Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis and Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy
- Fraley syndrome
- Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Sclerosis, Focal Glomerulosclerosis
- Galloway Mowat syndrome
- Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis with Kidney Involvement
- Gestational Hypertension
- Gitelman Syndrome
- Glomerular Diseases
- Glycosuria
- Goodpasture Syndrome
- Hematuria (Blood in Urine)
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS)
- Hemorrhagic Cystitis
- Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS, Hantavirus Renal Disease, Korean Hemorrhagic Fever, Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever, Nephropathis Epidemica)
- Hemosiderosis related to Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria and Hemolytic Anemia
- Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease, Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome
- Hepatitis C-Associated Renal Disease
- Hepatorenal Syndrome
- High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease
- HIV-Associated Nephropathy (HIVAN)
- Horseshoe Kidney (Renal Fusion)
- Hunner's Ulcer
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hypercalcemia
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypernatremia
- Hyperoxaluria
- Hyperphosphatemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypokalemia, Hypokalemia-induced renal dysfunction
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypophosphatemia
- IgA Nephropathy
- IgG4 Nephropathy
- Interstitial Cystitis, Painful Bladder Syndrome (Questionnaire)
- Interstitial Nephritis
- Kidney Stones, Nephrolithiasis
- Lead Nephropathy and Lead-Related Nephrotoxicity
- Leptospirosis Renal Disease
- Light Chain Deposition Disease, Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease
- Liddle Syndrome
- Lightwood-Albright Syndrome
- Lipoprotein Glomerulopathy
- Lithium Nephrotoxicity
- Loin Pain Hematuria
- Lupus, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis
- Lupus Kidney Disease, Lupus Nephritis
- Lyme Disease-Associated Glomerulonephritis
- Kombucha Tea Toxicity
- Malarial Nephropathy
- Malignancy-Associated Renal Disease
- Malignant Hypertension
- Malakoplakia
- Meatal Stenosis
- Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease
- Medullary Sponge Kidney
- Megaureter
- Melamine Toxicity and the Kidney
- Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis
- Membranous Nephropathy
- Metabolic Acidosis
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Microscopic Polyangiitis
- Milk-alkalai syndrome
- Minimal Change Disease
- Multicystic dysplastic kidney
- Multiple Myeloma
- Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Glomerulopathy
- Nail-patella Syndrome
- Nephrocalcinosis
- Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
- Nephroptosis (Floating Kidney, Renal Ptosis)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Neurogenic Bladder
- Nodular Glomerulosclerosis
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- Nutcracker syndrome
- Orthostatic Hypotension
- Orthostatic Proteinuria
- Osmotic Diuresis
- Page Kidney
- Papillary Necrosis
- Papillorenal Syndrome (Renal-Coloboma Syndrome, Isolated Renal Hypoplasia)
- The Peritoneal-Renal Syndrome
- Posterior Urethral Valve
- Post-infectious Glomerulonephritis, Post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Preeclampsia
- Proteinuria (Protein in Urine)
- Pseudohyperaldosteronism
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Pulmonary-Renal Syndrome
- Pyelonephritis (Kidney Infection)
- Pyonephrosis
- Radiation Nephropathy
- Reflux Nephropathy
- Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis
- Renal Abscess, Peripnephric Abscess
- Renal Agenesis
- Renal Artery Aneurysm
- Renal Artery Stenosis
- Renal Cell Cancer
- Renal Cyst
- Renal Infarction
- Renal Osteodystrophy
- Renal Tubular Acidosis
- Renin Secreting Tumors (Juxtaglomerular Cell Tumor)
- Reset Osmostat
- Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
- Rhabdomyolysis, Rhabdomyolysis related to Bariatric Sugery
- Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Renal Disease
- Sarcoidosis Renal Disease
- Salt Wasting, Renal and Cerebral
- Schistosomiasis and Glomerular Disease
- Scleroderma Renal Crisis
- Serpentine Fibula-Polycystic Kidney Syndrome, Exner Syndrome
- Silica Exposure and Chronic Kidney Disease
- Sjögren's Syndrome and Renal Disease
- Synthetic Cannabinoid Use and Acute Kidney Injury
- Kidney disease Following Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Kidney Disease Related to Stem Cell Transplantation
- Thin Basement Membrane Disease, Benign Familial Hematuria
- Trigonitis
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Tumor Lysis Syndrome
- Uremia
- Ureterocele
- Urethral Caruncle
- Urethral Stricture
- Urinary Incontinence
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Urinary Tract Obstruction
- Vesicointestinal Fistula
- Vesicoureteral Reflux
- Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
- Warfarin-Related Nephropathy
- Wegener’s Granulomatosis, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
- West Nile Virus and Chronic Kidney Disease
- Wunderlich syndrome
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