Type of Surgery

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Last updated: 11/24/2009

Resources

BOOKS

Brenner, Barry M. and Floyd C. Rector Jr., eds. The Kidney, 6thEdition. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders Company, 1999.

Burtis, Carl A. and Edward R. Ashwood. Tietz Textbook ofClinical Chemistry....

Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company, 1999.

Henry, J. B. Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders Company, 2001.

Pagana, Kathleen Deska. Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc., 1998.

Wallach, Jacques. Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, 7th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkens, 2000.


ORGANIZATIONS

National Kidney Foundation (NKF). 30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016. (800)622-9020. .

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). National Institutes of Health, Building 31, Room 9A04, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2560, Bethesda, MD 208792-2560. (301) 496-3583. .

OTHER

National Institutes of Health. [cited April 5, 2003]. .

National Institutes of Health. [cited June 29, 2003] .



 
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Definition

Kidney function tests is a collective term for a variety of individual tests and procedures that can be done to evaluate how well the kidneys are functioning.

Purpose

The kidneys, the body's natural filtration system, perform many vital functions, including removing metabolic waste products from the bloodstream, regulating the body's water balance, and maintaining the pH (acidity/alkalinity) of the body's fluids. Approximately one and a half quarts of blood per minute are circulated through the kidneys, where waste chemicals are filtered out and eliminated from the body (along with excess water) in the form of urine. Kidney function tests help to determine if the kidneys are performing their tasks adequately.


From http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/kidney_function_tests.jsp

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The estimated number of hospital admissions among adults aged 20 or older with “calculus of kidney and ureters” as a primary diagnosis was of 171,000 hospital stays in 2000.


From: NKUDIC

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