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Video Resources
Johns Hopkins Medicine
ABCs of Kidney Disease
Included Videos:
1. The Causes and Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease
2. Treatment Options for Chronic Kidney Disease
3. The Effects of Kidney Disease on the Body
4. Normal Kidney Functioning & Kidney Disease
5. Treatment Options for End-Stage Renal Disease
6. Nutrition & Kidney Disease: What’s Left to Eat?
2. Treatment Options for Chronic Kidney Disease
3. The Effects of Kidney Disease on the Body
4. Normal Kidney Functioning & Kidney Disease
5. Treatment Options for End-Stage Renal Disease
6. Nutrition & Kidney Disease: What’s Left to Eat?
Print Resources
The National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) resource about chronic kidney disease (CKD). This guide introduces patients to the 5-stages of kidney disease and discusses the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and how it relates to kidney function. Understanding what causes kidney failure and having regular check-ups by your primary care physician (PCP) and following your PCP’s recommendations will lessen your chances of getting kidney disease.
A program of the non-profit Medical Education Institute (MEI). Home Dialysis Central is a one-stop, online source of up-to-date, unbiased information about home dialysis for people with kidney disease, their families, and the healthcare professionals who provide kidney disease care.
A program of the non-profit Medical Education Institute (MEI). Kidney School is a comprehensive, online learning center for people with kidney disease. Each of the 16-modules cover a different topic in a lively, easy-to-read style.
Litholink’s resource to different diets to help reduce the risk of forming additional kidney stones. Ask your physician before following a specific diet.
The Nephron Information Center is a kidney disease resource, including news, alerts, and kidney disease education for patients, professionals, and the general public to become more aware of chronic kidney disease.
RenalWeb is a dialysis information resource on the internet for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis products to find links and information about news, products, and services.
Resource to phosphorus values from Bowes and Church’s Food Values of Portions Commonly Used. Ask your physician before following a specific diet.
Resource to potassium values from Bowes and Church’s Food Values of Portions Commonly Used. Ask your physician before following a specific diet.
Organizations
The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) is the oldest and largest, independent kidney patient organization in the U.S. dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients through education, advocacy, patient engagement and the fostering of patient communities.
The American Kidney Fund (AKF) fights kidney disease on behalf of the 37-million Americans living with kidney disease, and the millions more at risk, with programs that support people in their fight against kidney disease from prevention through post-transplant living.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports medical research and research training and disseminates science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic deseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic disease, to improve people’s health and quality of life.
The National Kidney Foundation Serving Maryland and Delaware is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation.
The Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Foundation is the only organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for PKD to improve the lives of those it affects.
The Renal Physicians Association (RPA) is the leading advocacy organization for the nephrology community to ensure the nephrolgist’s ability to provide the best medical services to chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients from the halls of Congress, state capitals, and the White House and federal agencies into the medical practice.