"Kidney Failure, Chronic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The end-stage of CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. It is characterized by the severe irreversible kidney damage (as measured by the level of PROTEINURIA) and the reduction in GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE to less than 15 ml per min (Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative, 2002). These patients generally require HEMODIALYSIS or KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D007676
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.777.419.780.750.500 C13.351.968.419.780.750.500
|
| Concept/Terms |
Kidney Failure, Chronic- Kidney Failure, Chronic
- End-Stage Kidney Disease
- Disease, End-Stage Kidney
- End Stage Kidney Disease
- Kidney Disease, End-Stage
- Chronic Kidney Failure
- End-Stage Renal Disease
- Disease, End-Stage Renal
- End Stage Renal Disease
- Renal Disease, End-Stage
- Renal Disease, End Stage
- Renal Failure, End-Stage
- End-Stage Renal Failure
- Renal Failure, End Stage
- Renal Failure, Chronic
- Chronic Renal Failure
- ESRD
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Kidney Failure, Chronic".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Kidney Failure, Chronic".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Kidney Failure, Chronic" by people in this website by year, and whether "Kidney Failure, Chronic" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Kidney Failure, Chronic" by people in Profiles.
-
Molecular characterization and genotyping of hepatitis C virus from Sudanese end-stage renal disease patients on haemodialysis. BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Nov 14; 22(1):848.
-
Access to Renal Replacement Therapy in South Africa-A Cry for Action. Transplantation. 2020 06; 104(6):1109-1111.
-
Atherosclerotic vascular disease is more prevalent among black ESKD patients on long-term CAPD in South Africa. BMC Nephrol. 2019 10 30; 20(1):399.
-
Burden of comorbidities in South Africans with systemic lupus erythematosus. Clin Rheumatol. 2019 Aug; 38(8):2077-2082.
-
Cardiac Changes and Their Association with Fetuin-A and Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease. Nephron. 2017; 136(3):233-242.
-
Biomarkers of Tolerance in Kidney Transplantation: Are We Predicting Tolerance or Response to Immunosuppressive Treatment? Am J Transplant. 2016 12; 16(12):3443-3457.
-
Correlation between volume overload, chronic inflammation, and left ventricular dysfunction in chronic kidney disease patients. Clin Nephrol. 2016 Supplement 1; 86 (2016)(13):131-135.
-
Early survival on maintenance dialysis therapy in South Africa: evaluation of a pre-dialysis education programme. Clin Exp Nephrol. 2016 Feb; 20(1):118-25.
-
Morbidity and mortality of black HIV-positive patients with end-stage kidney disease receiving chronic haemodialysis in South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2015 Jan 07; 105(2):110-4.
-
Renal transplantation in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive children. Pediatr Nephrol. 2015 Apr; 30(4):541-8.