Nephrology impact on quality and length of life, and so psychological support, health education and advanced care planning play key roles in nephrology. Chronic kidney disease is typically managed with treatment of causative conditions (such as diabetes), avoidance of substances toxic to the kidneys (nephrotoxins like radiologic contrast and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), antihypertensives, diet and weight modification and planning for end-stage kidney failure. Impaired kidney function has systemic effects on the body. An erythropoetin stimulating agent may be required to ensure adequate production of red blood cells, activated vitamin D supplements and phosphate binders may be required to counteract the effects
Body without organs gestation of a formation yet to come, and the potential formation of many actualities from a single origin. In "Anti-Oedipus" Deleuze and Guattari expand the Body without Organs image by comparing its real potentials to the egg's : The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and the becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors ("Capitalism and Schizophrenia", p. 19). For Deleuze and Guattari, every actual body has a limited set of traits, habits, movements, affects, etc.