[Basic program for the diagnosis and therapy of inflammatory diseases of the kidney]

The specialist for general medicine and for internal medicine, respectively, in the primary consultation must express the suspicion of the occurrence of a renal disease on the basis of the anamnesis and the findings of the clinical examination and confirm or exclude it by simple diagnostic tests. It is entered into the individual test component in diagnostics. The securing of the diagnosis, the judgement of the renal function as well as differential-therapeutic considerations for the further care are to be performed by the results of the diagnostic steps II (basic diagnostics, in special questionings by step III). About 100,000 patients with renal diseases are country-wide cared for at present, in whom 11% already suffer from a renal insufficiency. It is referred to the most important recommendations for therapy in bacterial and glomerular renal diseases.