kidney failure
disease where the kidneys fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood
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Summary
kidney failure is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,900 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: kidney disease[4], impaired renal function disease[5], chronic renal disease[6], urological symptom[7]
- Said to be the same as: renal insufficiency[8]
- Afflicts: kidney[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Kidney diseases[10]
- ICD-9-CM: 586[11], 404.12[12], 404.13[13]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C4376[14]
- Different from: renal insufficiency[15]
- Health specialty: nephrology[16]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: paricalcitol[17], alpha-ketoglutaric acid[18]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1074[19], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1074[20], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000083[21], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000731[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[23]
- WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/kidney_failure[24]
Why It Matters
kidney failure has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]