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Nephrology is the branch of internal medicine dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney. The word nephrology is derived from the Greek word nephros, which means "kidney", and the suffix -ology, or "study of".Patients are referred to nephrology specialists for various different reasons, such as :

• Acute renal failure, a sudden loss of renal function
• Chronic renal failure; another doctor has detected symptoms of declining renal function, often a rise in creatinine
• Hematuria (blood loss in the urine)
• Kidney stones
• Cancer of the kidney, mostly renal cell carcinoma
• Chronic or recurrent urinary tract infections

Urologists are surgical specialists of the urinary tract. They are involved in renal diseases that might be amenable to surgery:

• Cancer of the kidney
• Kidney stones