Chronic Kidney Disease

This artificial filtering of your blood removes waste from your body. It helps perform the job that your kidneys are supposed to do. If your kidneys don't function properly, dialysis may be a necessary part of your life. Two methods of dialysis treatments are commonly available.

If you've been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, you may be facing some unexpected challenges. But kidney disease doesn't have to take over your life. Use these simple strategies to manage it.

This surgery removes one of your kidneys and some of the structures connected to it. Kidneys filter waste from your blood to create pee. We may do this surgery to take out a diseased kidney. Or, we may take out a healthy kidney so we can transplant it into someone else.

This surgery removes part of one of your kidneys. Your kidneys filter waste from your blood to create pee. We do this surgery to take out a tumor or other diseased tissue. We leave the rest of your kidney so it can continue to work.

This is the loss of the function of your kidneys. These are the organs that filter your blood to produce urine. When your kidneys can no longer cleanse your blood, waste builds up in your body. This can be fatal.

This is kidney damage that tends to get worse over time. With chronic kidney disease, your kidneys don't work as well as they should. They don't adequately filter waste from your blood. Then, waste and fluid build up in the body, causing health problems. Over time, your kidneys may lose most of their ability to function. We call this "kidney failure."