Anatom3DKidneys & ureters
Renes et ureteres · Ledviny a močovody
Urinary system
Looks like
Two bean-shaped kidneys at the back wall with a tube from each running down to the bladder.
What it does
Filter about 180 litres of fluid from the blood a day and reclaim all but 1.5 litres, which leaves as urine; control salt, water and blood pressure.
Keeping it well
Drink to thirst, control blood pressure and sugar, careful with anti-inflammatory painkillers.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Adrenal insufficiency (Addison's)
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bladder cancer
- Burnout
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Cushing's syndrome
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism & Graves' disease
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Hypothyroidism
- IgA nephropathy
- Kawasaki disease
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Metabolic syndrome
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Neuroblastoma
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Postnatal depression
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Type 1 diabetes
- Urinary tract infection
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever