Kidney Diseases
Some kidney diseases can be treated. But when a child reaches or will soon reach kidney failure (also called end-stage renal disease or ESRD), kidney transplant is the treatment of choice.
Learn more about kidney failure.
Kidney Diseases That Can Lead to Kidney Failure
- Obstructive and reflux nephropathy
- Posterior urethral valves
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Eagle–Barrett (prune belly) syndrome
- Dysplasia
- Aplasia
- Hypoplasia
- Multicystic dysplasia
- Glomerulonephritis
- Idiopathic and postinfectious crescentic
- Membranous
- Mesangioproliferative
- IgA nephropathy
- Anti-glomerular basement membrane
- Focal glomerulosclerosis
- Henoch–Schonlein purpura nephritis
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
- Hereditary
- Polycystic kidneys
- Nephronophthisis (medullary cystic kidney disease)
- Nephritis (including Alport syndrome)
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Congenital nephrotic syndrome
- Cystinosis
- Primary hyperoxaluria
- Autoimmune diseases
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
- Tumors
- Wilms tumor
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Other
- Neonatal cortical necrosis
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Chronic pyelonephritis