Nephrology

"Nephrology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.

Descriptor ID	D009398
MeSH Number(s)	H02.403.429.580
Concept/Terms	Nephrology Nephrology

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Nephrology".

Natural Sciences [H]
Health Occupations [H02]
Medicine [H02.403]
Internal Medicine [H02.403.429]
Nephrology [H02.403.429.580]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Nephrology".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Nephrology".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nephrology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nephrology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 15 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	1	0	1
2002	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2012	3	0	3
2013	0	1	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	1	0	1
2021	2	0	2
2022	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Nephrology" by people in Profiles.

Purnell TS, Bignall ONR, Norris KC. Centering Anti-Racism and Social Justice in Nephrology Education to Advance Kidney Health Equity. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 11; 33(11):1981-1984.

View in: PubMed
Eneanya ND, Boulware LE, Tsai J, Bruce MA, Ford CL, Harris C, Morales LS, Ryan MJ, Reese PP, Thorpe RJ, Morse M, Walker V, Arogundade FA, Lopes AA, Norris KC. Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2022 02; 18(2):84-94.

View in: PubMed
Kalantar-Zadeh K, McCullough PA, Agarwal SK, Beddhu S, Boaz M, Bruchfeld A, Chauveau P, Chen J, de Sequera P, Gedney N, Golper TA, Gupta M, Harris T, Hartwell L, Liakopoulos V, Kopple JD, Kovesdy CP, Macdougall IC, Mann JFE, Molony D, Norris KC, Perlmutter J, Rhee CM, Riella LV, Weisbord SD, Zoccali C, Goldsmith D. Nomenclature in nephrology: preserving 'renal' and 'nephro' in the glossary of kidney health and disease. J Nephrol. 2021 06; 34(3):639-648.

View in: PubMed
Rhee CM, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Norris KC. Why minorities live longer on dialysis: an in-depth examination of the Danish nephrology registry. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2016 07; 31(7):1027-30.

View in: PubMed
Yan G, Cheung AK, Greene T, Yu AJ, Oliver MN, Yu W, Ma JZ, Norris KC. Interstate Variation in Receipt of Nephrologist Care in US Patients Approaching ESRD: Race, Age, and State Characteristics. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Nov 06; 10(11):1979-88.

View in: PubMed
Cragan JD, Young BA, Correa A. Renin-Angiotensin System Blocker Fetopathy. J Pediatr. 2015 Oct; 167(4):792-4.

View in: PubMed
Yan G, Cheung AK, Ma JZ, Yu AJ, Greene T, Oliver MN, Yu W, Norris KC. The associations between race and geographic area and quality-of-care indicators in patients approaching ESRD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Apr; 8(4):610-8.

View in: PubMed
Lee B, Turley M, Meng D, Zhou Y, Garrido T, Lau A, Radler L. Effects of proactive population-based nephrologist oversight on progression of chronic kidney disease: a retrospective control analysis. BMC Health Serv Res. 2012 Aug 15; 12:252.

View in: PubMed
Saab G, Chen SC, Li S, Bomback AS, Whaley-Connell AT, Jurkovitz CT, Norris KC, McCullough PA. Association of physician care with mortality in Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) participants. Am J Kidney Dis. 2012 Mar; 59(3 Suppl 2):S34-9.

View in: PubMed
Jurkovitz CT, Elliott D, Li S, Saab G, Bomback AS, Norris KC, Chen SC, McCullough PA, Whaley-Connell AT. Physician utilization, risk-factor control, and CKD progression among participants in the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP). Am J Kidney Dis. 2012 Mar; 59(3 Suppl 2):S24-33.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals