3rd – 4th June, 2010 9:00 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 15:00
Meeting Venue: ISCHIA, Hotel Miramare e Castello
1st – 2nd July, 2010 9:00 – 18:00 / 10:00 – 13:00
Meeting Venue: Brussels, European Commission
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important condition affecting around 10% of the population and is an important cause of cardiovascular complications. Indeed, patients are more likely to die prematurely from cardiovascular disease than to progress to renal failure requiring dialysis or transplantation. An estimated 4.5 percent of adults 20 years of age and older have physiological evidence of chronic kidney disease determined as a moderately or severely reduced glomerular filtration rate. Indeed, patients are more likely to die prematurely from cardiovascular disease than to progress to renal failure requiring dialysis or transplantation. In addition, CKD is a well-known complication of diabetes and with the increasing prevalence of this disease, diabetes is now the single commonest cause of renal failure in the Western World with 19–20% of patients starting dialysis in the UK as a result of diabetes. However, with appropriate medical management, particularly if instituted early, diabetic nephropathy and its complications can be limited or even prevented in some instance.
Chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) is when a disease such as IgA nephropathy slowly and gradually destroys the filtering capacity of the kidneys. It is sometimes referred to as progressive renal insufficiency, chronic kidney disease or chronic renal failure (CRF). This kind of damage cannot currently be repaired, and as such, it is irreversible. A person may have chronic renal failure for many years, even decades, before dialysis or a kidney transplant become necessary. Chronic renal insufficiency does not, by itself, mean complete shutdown of the kidneys, and a person with chronic renal insufficiency may still pass urine normally, and may have more than enough kidney function left for normal functioning of the body. Note that you cannot judge the efficiency of your kidneys by the amount of urine you produce. People with quite advanced renal insufficiency, and even people on dialysis may still produce a fair amount of urine. But this does not mean that the kidneys are filtering waste nor regulating serum electrolyte levels efficiently.
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