What are the differences between nephropathy and chronic kidney disease?
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What are the differences between nephropathy and chronic kidney disease?
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Dr. Tarek Naguib
Internal Medicine - Nephrology & Dialysis
In brief: Close, semantics
Nephropathy means kidney condition.
So you could have diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy, or uric acid nephropathy.
A chronic kidney disease (ckd) means a long-term kidney disease that is not amenable for correction. It also could have many different causes. Above examples of nephropathy are also chronic kidney diseases but uric acid nephropathy is possibly curable so it is not ckd.
In brief: Close, semantics
Nephropathy means kidney condition.
So you could have diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy, or uric acid nephropathy.
A chronic kidney disease (ckd) means a long-term kidney disease that is not amenable for correction. It also could have many different causes. Above examples of nephropathy are also chronic kidney diseases but uric acid nephropathy is possibly curable so it is not ckd.
Dr. Tarek Naguib
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Dr. Idan Sharon
Neurology
In brief: NEPHROPATHY
Nephropathy simply means sickness of the kidneys and is nonspecific.
In brief: NEPHROPATHY
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