The word nephrology comes from the Greek νεφρός (nephrós), which means kidney, and from the suffix -logy (study, treatise). It is a medical specialty that is subdivided from the branch of internal medicine and which specializes in the organs of renal function and their structure both for the treatment of diseases related to kidney function and the prevention of these to the system.
The doctor who specializes in nephrology is called a nephrologist. Nephrology is commonly confused with urology due to the similarity between the two, however urology specializes in the male urinary system and nephrology encompasses much more anatomical field, reaching up to the channels through the processes that lead to function. renal and it is not a surgical discipline like urology, that is, it is in charge of diagnosing and controlling systemic disorders (according to diagnosis) and combating them with treatments.
Some of the disorders that concern nephrology are kidney failure (chronic or acute), hematuria, proteinuria (loss of protein in the urine), kidney stones, kidney cancer, nephrotic or nephrotic disorders, cases of kidney replacement, among others.
Nephrology works in conjunction with urology. If a patient needs, for example, a kidney transplant, it will be the urologist who performs the surgical procedure, however the nephrologist will be the one who does the planning from finding the right donor to the postoperative follow-up where immunosuppressive treatment and infections that must be applied must be applied. This causes.
