Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
How do we define CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)?
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Professor and Head of Nephrology, AIIMS, will explain about chronic kidney disease in this video. Chronic kidney disease has few components such as kidney damage which is progressive in nature and doesn’t have any reversible factor. Such cases are known as chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
Dr Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, graduate and post graduate from King George Medical College, Lucknow did his nephrology specialization from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1987. Since then he is working in the same department. Kidney diseases, particularly acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) contribute to more than 10,000 patients per million populations in India. These are not only serious diseases but also involves significant finances of the patient and family. While working at AIIMS in last 30 years, during various media briefing, radio talks and non-nephrology meetings, significant lacunae in general knowledge about kidney disease in general public became obvious.
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