Kidney Failure Staging System. We hope you find this site useful and informative. The staging system is more informative than egfr alone the researchers said.
Staging of chronic kidney disease ckd is undertaken following the diagnosis of ckd in order to facilitate appropriate treatment and monitoring of the patient. Staging is based initially on fasting blood creatinine assessed on at least two occasions in the stable patient. The stages of kidney disease are based on how well the kidneys can filter waste and extra fluid out of the blood.
In the later stages your kidneys must work harder to get rid of waste and may stop working altogether.
Chronic kidney disease ckd refers to all five stages of kidney damage from very mild damage in stage 1 to complete kidney failure in stage 5. Checking the gfr will help determine how efficiently the kidneys are filtering the blood. Stage 5 kidney disease stage 5 means your kidneys are working at less than 15 percent capacity or you have kidney failure. The foundation has divided kidney disease into five stages based on the glomerular filtration rate gfr a process used by the kidneys to filter your blood and remove excess fluids and wastes.