{{short description|Non-inflammatory kidney disease}} {{confused|necrosis|nephritis|nephrotic syndrome}} {{Infobox medical condition (new) | name = Nephrosis | synonyms = | image = | caption = | pronounce = | field = Nephrology | symptoms = | complications = | onset = | duration = | types = | causes = | risks = | diagnosis = | differential = | prevention = | treatment = | medication = | prognosis = | frequency = | deaths = }}
'''Nephrosis''' is any of various forms of kidney disease (nephropathy). In an old and broad sense of the term, it is any nephropathy,<ref name="Dorlands">{{Citation |author=Elsevier |author-link=Elsevier |title=Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary |publisher=Elsevier |url=http://dorlands.com/ |postscript=.}}</ref> but in current usage the term is usually restricted to a narrower sense of nephropathy without inflammation or neoplasia,<ref name="MeshName_Nephrosis">{{MeshName|Nephrosis}}</ref> in which sense it is distinguished from nephritis, which involves inflammation. It is also defined as any purely degenerative disease of the renal tubules.<ref name="Dorlands"/> Nephrosis is characterized by a set of signs called the nephrotic syndrome.<ref name="MeshName_Nephrosis"/> Nephrosis can be a primary disorder or can be secondary to another disorder.<ref name="MeshName_Nephrosis"/> '''Nephrotic''' complications of another disorder can coexist with nephritic complications. In other words, nephrosis and nephritis can be pathophysiologically contradistinguished, but that does not mean that they cannot occur simultaneously. Types of nephrosis include amyloid nephrosis and osmotic nephrosis.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
==Epidemiology== [[File:Nephritis and nephrosis world map - DALY - WHO2004.svg|thumb|none|upright=1.75|Disability-adjusted life year for nephritis and nephrosis per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates_country/en/index.html |title=WHO Disease and injury country estimates |year=2009 |work=World Health Organization |access-date=Nov 11, 2009}}</ref>{{Div col|small=yes|colwidth=10em}} {{legend|#b3b3b3|no data}} {{legend|#ffff65|less than 40}} {{legend|#fff200|40-120}} {{legend|#ffdc00|120-200}} {{legend|#ffc600|200-280}} {{legend|#ffb000|280-360}} {{legend|#ff9a00|360-440}} {{legend|#ff8400|440-520}} {{legend|#ff6e00|520-600}} {{legend|#ff5800|600-680}} {{legend|#ff4200|680-760}} {{legend|#ff2c00|760-840}} {{legend|#cb0000|more than 840}} {{div col end}}]]
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