CKD

Presentation of Case. Dr. Daniel Y. Sugai (Dermatology): A 65-year-old man with end-stage renal disease was seen in the emergency department of this hospital because of a leg injury and a diffuse pruritic rash. The patient was in poor health, with end-stage renal disease that required hemodialysis...

Progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is inevitable. However, the last decade has witnessed tremendous achievements in this field. Today we are optimistic; the dream of withholding this progression is about to be realistic. The recent discoveries in the field of CKD management involved most of the individual diseases leading the patients to end-stage renal disease. Most of these advances involved patients suffering diabetic kidney disease, chronic glomerulonephritis, polycystic kidney disease, renal amyloidosis and chronic tubulointerstitial disease...