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Learning more about your family health history is an important step to finding the cause of your kidney disease and protecting your health.

Following a kidney-friendly food and fluid plan is very important when you are in kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and are on dialysis.

Learn about stages of kidney disease in children.

Doctors use different urine tests to check kidney health and find other health problems. For a urine test, you provide a sample of urine in a special cup. No special preparation is usually needed.

Learn about granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)—the causes, symptoms, treatment and effect on your kidneys.

The most common form of treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD, or kidney failure) is hemodialysis. If your medical facility does not carefully follow guidelines for infection control, it is possible to get hepatitis C from doing hemodialysis.