Bone Abstracts

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined according to the presence of kidney damage and level of kidney function – irrespective of the type of kidney disease (diagnosis). Among individuals with chronic kidney disease, the stages are defined based on the level of glomerular filtration rate. From infancy through young adulthood, the major causes of CKD arise from congenital abnormalities of the kidneys and urinary tract (CAKUT), acquired or congenital forms of nephrotic synd...

Biographical DetailsCraig B LangmanProfessor Craig B Langman, is the Isaac A Abt, MD, Professor of Kidney Diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Head of Kidney Diseases at the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. His research focuses on the basic and clinical expression of inherited or acquired d...