Box 3.

Rare disease groups.

Alport syndrome
Autosomal recessive polcystic kidney disease
Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency
Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Cystinosis
Cystinuria
Dent disease and Lowe syndrome
Familial urate associated nephropathy (uromudulin associated nephropathy, hyperuricaemic nephropathy and medullary cystic kidney disease)
Hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 beta
Shiga toxin-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome
Hyperoxaluria (primary hyperoxaluria, oxalosis)
Hypokalaemic alkaloses (Bartter, EAST, Gitelman and Liddle syndromes)
Membranous nephropathy
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, dense deposit disease
Nephrotic syndrome (steroid resistant, congenital, associated with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis)
Pregnancy in chronic kidney disease
Pure red cell aplasia
Vasculitis