Anatom3DRight kidney
Ren dexter · Pravá ledvina
Urinary system
Looks like
A bean-shaped organ about 11 cm long high on the back wall of the belly, under the lower ribs, one each side.
What it does
Filters blood to make urine, balances salt, water and acid, and makes hormones controlling blood pressure and red cells.
Keeping it well
Kidney disease is usually silent: blood tests and urine protein detect it. Fever with flank pain or blood in the urine needs a doctor.
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bladder cancer
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- IgA nephropathy
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Pre-eclampsia
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever