Anatom3DRenal cortex
Cortex renalis · Kůra ledviny
Urinary system
Looks like
The outer, grainy layer of the kidney, under the capsule, about 1 cm thick.
What it does
Holds the filters (glomeruli) and most of the tubules.
Keeping it well
High blood pressure and diabetes scar it slowly and silently; a yearly urine and blood check matters if you have either.
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