CONTINOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (CAPD)
Living Donors - family members make the closest tissue matches.
Cadaver - from people who have decided to donate their organs when they die.
Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of renal failure.
Hypertension and gloromerulonephritis are the other important causes.
There are two types of kidney failure.
- The acute - Which is reversible.
- The
chronic - Which is irreversible.

PONDICHERRY KIDNEY FOUNDATION
Kidney Related Links
Nephron.com(http://www.Nephron.com)RenalNet(http://www.renalnet.org/renalnet/renalnet.cfm)UNOS(http://www.unos.org)The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)(http://www.aakp.org)American Society of Nephrology(http://www.asn-online.org)ERA-EDTA(http://www.era-edta.org)Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology(http://www.hdcn.com)International Peritoneal Dialysis Society(http://www.ispd.org)International Society of Nephrology(http://www.isn-online.org)The (U.S.) National Kidney Foundation (NKF)(http://www.kidney.org)cyberNephrology(http://www.kidney.org/professionals/cyber/index.cfm)
(http://www.niddk.nih.gov)
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