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Major advances in kidney disease study of 2016

  

  1. Department of Nephrology, the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
  • Online:2017-02-05 Published:2017-02-08
  • Contact: Corresponding author: Xu Jinsheng,Email: xjs5766@126.com

Abstract: Major aspects of kidney disease study in 2016 were reviewed, such as acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and the complications related to chronic kidney disease. This paper summarized particularly the progress in the  epidemiology, biomarkers and clinical treatment of acute kidney injury, the pathological classification, diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease, and complications of the diseases.

Key words: nephrology, glomerulonephritis, cytokines