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2. Pediatric Nephrologist
 Pediatric nephrologists diagnose, treat, and manage many disorders
affecting the kidney and urinary tract, including kidney failure, high blood
pressure, inherited kidney diseases, kidney stones, urinary tract infections,
and abnormalities in the urine such as blood and protein.
 If your child has kidney or urinary tract disease, bladder problems, kidney
stones, or high blood pressure, a pediatric nephrologists has the special
skills and experience to treat your child. Pediatric nephrologists treat
children from infancy through late adolescence and in some centers up to
young adulthood.
 Nephrology is a specialty of medicine and pediatrics that concerns itself
with the study of normal kidney function, kidney problems, the treatment
of kidney problems and renal replacement therapy (dialysis and kidney
transplantation).
 Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of
infants, children, and adolescents, and the age limit usually ranges from
birth up to 18 years of age (in some places until completion of secondary
education, and until age 21 in the United States).

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5. • Acute nephritic syndrome – a set of kidney disorders that can lead to swelling or
that lead to disruption of the kidney’s
normal processes

8. Causes of nephrotic syndrome
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