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CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE |
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congenital or inherited disease |
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Alport's syndrome [+ perceptive nerve deafness] |
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polycystic renal disease: |
adult [autosomal dominant]congenital / childhood [autosomal recessive; more severe] |
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multicystic renal disease |
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renal hypoplasia / dysplasia |
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medullary sponge kidney [nephrocalcinosis] |
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glomerulonephritis (GN) |
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membranous GN |
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IgA nephropathy [Berger's disease; recurrent, synpharyngitic haematuria typical] |
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mesangiocapillary GN ('membranoproliferative GN') |
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focal glomerulosclerosis |
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secondary glomerulonephritis: |
Wegener's granulomatosis polyarteritis nodosa systemic lupus erythematosus diabetic nephropathy Goodpasture's syndrome amyloidosis |
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hypertension |
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benign nephrosclerosis malignant nephrosclerosis |
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infections (chronic or recurrent) |
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chronic pyelonephritis (reflux nephropathy)renal tuberculosis schistosomiasis subacute bacterial endocarditis |
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metabolic |
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hypercalcaemia (causing nephrocalcinosis) |
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hyperuricaemia (uric acid nephropathy) [NB: also causes uric acid stones and hypertensive renal disease] |
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chronic interstitial nephritis |
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chronic analgesic abuse |
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idiopathic |
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