Wikipedia:WikiProject Nephrology

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WikiProject Nephrology aims to better organize information in articles related to Nephrology. Nephrology is the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the kidney. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 2.1 Parentage 2.2 Related Wikiportals 3 Participants 4 Articles 4.1 Other articles needing creation or improvement 4.2 Articles needing images/better images 5 Special articles 5.1 Did you know articles 5.2 Featured articles 5.3 Good articles 6 Wikipedia articles and categories on Nephrology 7 Lists 8 Templates 8.1 Nephrology templates 8.2 WikiProject Nephrology notice

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WikiProject Nephrology

[edit] Scope

Nephrology is the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the kidney.

This WikiProject aims to:

• increase the quality of the current articles on nephrology topics by increasing their medical content while keeping them accessible to individuals with no specialty medical knowledge
• facilitate the creation of new articles on topics in nephrology, so that Wikipedia is a more-or-less comprehensive nephrology resource for the public
• ensure that articles created on nephrology topics are thoroughly referenced and include up-to-date links to the most recent literature
• explain the use of evidence-based medicine in nephrology and how it is applied to the care of patients with renal disease
• maintain consistency per WP:MOS on nephrology articles
• increase the number of images attached to articles
• produce nephrology-themed featured articles based on the above
• include both traditional and complementary and alternative medicine therapies for illnesses nephrologists typically see and treat
• improve the kidney bluebox {{Kidney}} and create a nephrology template that lists the most common renal diseases.

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject is descended from WikiProject Clinical Medicine.

[edit] Related Wikiportals

• Portal:Medicine

[edit] Participants

All wikipedians are welcome to join! You need no medical expertise or specific nephrology expertise in order to contribute to this WikiProject.

User/Signature	Special Interests (if any)
Nephron  T|C 04:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)	dialysis adequacy, home hemodialysis
InvictaHOG 10:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)	pediatric renal issues
Danieliralevy T@lk	electrolyte disorders
Samir धर्म	general nephrology, dialysis allocation, transplantation
JFW | T@lk	nephrology in systemic disease
Felix-felix	Renal physiology RRT General Neph

[edit] Articles

Wikipedia:WikiProject Nephrology/Collaboration

[edit] Other articles needing creation or improvement

• Acute renal failure
• Dialysis adequacy - measurement of renal dialysis
• Hemodialysis
• Minimal change disease
• Nephroblastoma
• Renal dialysis
• Renal function
• Renal tubular acidosis
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism
• Renal transplant

[edit] Articles needing images/better images

• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Lupus nephritis
• Minimal change disease

[edit] Special articles

[edit] Did you know articles

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[edit] Featured articles

None as of yet

[edit] Good articles

• Hepatorenal syndrome

I'm hoping to nominate home hemodialysis sometime in the near future... when I get a nice picture for it.

[edit] Wikipedia articles and categories on Nephrology

• Nephrology
• Category:Nephrology

[edit] Lists

No lists as of yet

[edit] Templates

[edit] Nephrology templates

Urinary system - Kidney - edit
Renal fascia | Renal capsule | Renal cortex  (Renal column) | Renal medulla (Renal sinus, Renal pyramids) | Renal lobe | Cortical lobule | Medullary ray | Nephron
afferent circulation: Renal artery → Interlobar arteries → Arcuate arteries → Cortical radial arteries → Afferent arterioles → Renal corpuscle (Glomerulus, Bowman's capsule) kidney tubule: Proximal tubule → Loop of Henle (Descending, Thin ascending, Thick ascending)  → Distal convoluted tubule → Connecting tubule → Collecting ducts → Duct of Bellini → Renal papilla → Minor calyx → Major calyx → Renal pelvis → Ureter efferent circulation: Glomerulus → Efferent arterioles → Peritubular capillaries/Vasa recta → Arcuate vein→ Interlobar veins→ Renal vein juxtaglomerular apparatus: Macula densa, Juxtaglomerular cells, Extraglomerular mesangial cells
Renal physiology
Filtration - Ultrafiltration | Countercurrent exchange | Glomerular basement membrane | Podocyte | Filtration slits | Intraglomerular mesangial cells Hormones affecting filtration - Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) | Aldosterone | Atrial natriuretic peptide Endocrine - Renin | Erythropoietin (EPO) | Calcitriol (Active vitamin D) | Prostaglandins
Assessing Renal function / Measures of dialysis
Glomerular filtration rate | Creatinine clearance | Renal clearance ratio | Urea reduction ratio | Kt/V | Standardized Kt/V | Hemodialysis product

Health science - Medicine - Nephrology - edit
Diseases of the glomerulus
Lupus nephritis | Post-infectious glomerulonephritis | Minimal change disease | Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis | Diabetic nephropathy | IgA nephropathy
Diseases of the proximal convoluted tubules
Fanconi syndrome (Type II renal tubular acidosis) | renal cell carcinoma
Diseases of the distal convoluted tubules
pseudohypoaldosteronism (Type IV renal tubular acidosis)
Diseases of the collecting duct
Type I renal tubular acidosis
Tumours of the kidney
renal cell carcinoma | Wilms' tumour (children)
Diseases of the renal vasculature
renal artery stenosis | vasculitis | atheroembolic disease
Tubulointerstitial diseases of the kidney
Drug-induced interstitial nephritis | Obstructive nephropathy | Radiation nephritis | Reflux nephropathy | Sarcoidosis
Genetic diseases of the kidney/syndromes associated with kidney dysfunction
Alport syndrome | Polycystic kidney disease | Wilms' tumour (children) von Hippel-Lindau syndrome | Hereditary papillary renal carcinoma | Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome | Hereditary renal carcinoma

[edit] WikiProject Nephrology notice

The template for marking an article as part of the WikiProject Nephrology project is here. It can be inserted into an article with:

{{NephroWikiProject}}

Its appearance is as follows:

This article is part of a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's articles related to nephrology. See WikiProject Nephrology and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.