2013年3月24日星期日

How to deal with insomnia in kidney disease

Kidney disease can be the cause of your sleep problem. well then, how does kidney disease cause insomnia?
Itching skin
Kidney disease can cause waste products to build up in the blood and thus cause itching skin which may affect your sleep quality at night. You may need to stay awake to scratch yourself and if this condition last for a long time, insomnia will be caused.
Restless syndrome
Restless syndrome is a complication of dialysis, with which you may have a poor sleep at night.
Medications
some medications make kidney failure patients sleepy and if they sleep a lot in the day time, they will be sleepless at night. Therefore, these medicines also should be blamed for insomnia among kidney disease patients.
how to deal with insomnia in kidney disease?
1.Bringing all the kidney disease symptoms under control
Common kidney disease symptoms include high blood pressure, swelling, protein in urine, blood in urine and anemia and so on. These symptoms may worsen patient's illness condition and insomnia symptom. Therefore, having a tight control about these symptoms are very necessary.
2.take some antipruritic medicines or fluids
If itching skin has affect your sleep, taking some antipruritic medicines or fluids is very necessary. Besides, skin problem in kidney disease is always caused by high blood urea nitrogen which is the end product of protein. Therefore, to get itching skin problem remitted, limiting protein intake is also very necessary.
3. Improve kidney condition
Since decreased kidney function is the root cause of insomnia for kidney disease patients, when kidney condition is improved, insomnia symptom will be alleviated at the same time.

2013年3月23日星期六

Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease

In recent years, the morbidity of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) increases very fast and PKD has become the third factor that causes kidney failure according to the statistical data. However, most people are not very clear about symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Next let we see these symptoms together.
1. Renal cysts
Many PKD symptoms are closely related to the development of renal cysts. The number of cysts will increase with the development of patient’s condition.
2. Back pain and abdominal pain
Back pain and abdominal pain are most common symptoms in PKD patients, especially in the female patients.
3. Renal function damage
The decline of kidney enrichment function always shows the kidney function damage in the early stage. Most of PKD patients can still maintain the normal kidney function, even if they have been forty years old or sixty years old. Once the patient’s renal function begins to reduce, the drop speed of his glomerular filtration is about 4.4-5.5ml/min every year.
4. Hypertension
Hypertension is one of most common symptoms in the early stage of PKD. Hypertension is related to the kidney size and the number of cysts and it will rise with the increase of age. Hypertension can leads to the renal function damage.
5. Anemia
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients usually don’t have anemia, and the patient who has persistent hematuria may have mild anemia. The occurance of PKD patients’ anemia is later and milder than other patients’.
6. Gross hematuria
More than thirty percent of PKD patients have gross hematuria that is spontaneous or happens after strenuous exercise. The factors that cause gross hematuria are anginorrhoxis, stone, infection and canceration.
Polycystic Kidney Disease is a life-threatening disease. If you have one or more symptoms mentioned above, you should see a doctor as soon as possible. Early diagnosis and treatment can help you to recover.

Causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD, also known as Polycystic Kidney Syndrome) is one of the most common life-threatening diseases. But the experts still can’t determine the causes of this disease. According to different hereditary factors, causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease may be divided into two types.
Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys, and it has two types: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD).
ADPKD can occur at any age, especially in youth or middle-aged people. This disease is autosomal dominant inheritance, and the child’s risk is 50% if his parent has ADPKD. But forty percent of ADPKD patients don’t have a family history of this disease. In view of that, these patients’ diseases may be caused by their genetic mutations. One cause of ADPKD is mostly due to abnormal gene which is known as ADPKD1 on chromosome 16, the other cause of ADPKD is ADPKD2 which locates on the short arm of chromosome 14. Then we can ensure the one thing is that ADPKD is caused by genetic disorder.
ARPKD occurs only when the patient’s parents both have this disease. Because this disease usually appears in infancy and the morbidity of this disease is 25%, ARPKD is also named by infantile polycystic kidney disease. At present, although the experts still don’t know which gene causes ARPKD, we can ensure that it is a disease caused by genetic disorder.
Many researches indicate that these genetic disorders are all related to active agents that can help the cell’s growth, but the key link and causes have not been clear. In a word, the genetic disorders which make the cell’s growth change is one of causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease.

2013年3月22日星期五

Something You Should Know about Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertensive nephropathy is the benign small arteries nephrosclerosis (also known as hypertension and renal arteriosclerosis) caused by primary hypertensive and malignant arteriolar nephrosclerosis.It is accompanied by corresponding clinical manifestation, hypertension and renal failure. The patient who suffers from hypertensive nephropathy always has perenial history of hypertension, his renal tubular damage is earlier than that in glomerular, nocturia increases, urinary concentration dysfunction, urine changes to lighter, mild proteinuria appears , hematuria and tubular are seen below the microscopic , and he often has other target organ complications of hypertension.
Physical examinations of hypertensive nephropathy are found :general blood pressure increases persistent (/ Kpa / mmHg or more); some of the eyelids and / or lower extremity edema, heart border to expand; most arteriosclerotic retinopathy, fundus stripe flame-shaped hemorrhage and cotton wool softexudation in support of the malignant renal atherosclerosis diagnosis with hypertensive encephalopathy can locate signs of nervous system.
Causes of morbidity
The kidney itself is a large blood ball , used to filter toxins from the body, and prevent protein, blood cells and other substances leaking from blood vessels.Hypertension makes the intravascular blood pressure increased,which can make the protein leak.Once the protein leaks, the kidneys filter system will be damaged, and result in a vicious cycle.The damage caused by long time is difficult to reverse ,kidney compensatory increases until failure in advance. This is why having hematuria is not terrible, but proteinuria. The common causes are: The incidence of the damage of hypertensive renal has a positive correlation with the severity and the duration of hypertension.Other possible affecting facters include gender, race, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hyperuricemia.The factors affect each other,that aggravates the damage of kidney.Men are more susceptible to kidney damage than women.The age of onset of essential hypertension is generally 25 - 45 years old, while the age of clinical symptoms of kidney damage caused by hypertension is generally 40 - 60 years old.The earliest symptoms may be nocturia increasing,that reflects the tubular already appears ischemic lesions ,and the function of urine concentration begins to subside.Then appearing proteinuria shows the glomerular has occurred lesions.The degree of proteinuria is generally from mild to moderate (+ or ++),the volume of urinary protein is generally not more than 2 g,but a few patients have a large number of proteinuria.The red blood cells and tubula of urinary sediment microscopy examination are few.Because of glomerular capillary rupturing ,several patients occurs transient gross hematuria.The research shows that one ten thousandth of the patiens with essential hypertension will develop into renal failure .The renal function of the patients with hypertension not treated reduces more significantly than those without hypertension.
Frequently we can find that other organs caused by essential hypertension are mainly cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications.These complications maybe appear earlier and sicker than kidney damage,and they are the primary or key factor for affecting prognosis.The most common cardiac complications is Hypertension left ventricular hypertrophy,meanwhile easily merging cardiac failure; Coronary heart disease and angina;Cerebrovascular complications are cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction.In our country cerebrovascular accident in the cause of death of essential hypertension is in the first place.Essential hypertension can also cause retina arteriosclerosis,and furtherly cause Arteriosclerotic retinopathy.The degree of retina arteriosclerosis has a positive correlation with blood pressure,which relates with diastolic blood pressure closer.Retina arteriosclerosis is genernally parallel with the degree of renal arteriosclerosis ,which can roughly affect the situation of renal artery,so fundus examination is very importantly.

Different Types of Proteinuria

What is proteinuria?
Proteinuria is not always sick.It has two parts ,including functional proteinuria and pathological proteinuria.
Functional proteinuria which is also called physiological proteinuria, is that temporary proteinuria in healthy people. More common in young people ,as for the influence of strenuous exercise ,fever, high temperature ,cold, mental tension and some other factors, the kidney vasospasm or congestion,leads to glomerular filtration membrane permeability increased and large protein escape from the net. Normal pregnant woman' protein in urine can have a little increase, which is relevant to the position ,renal flow increase,and glomerular filtration rate increases. After the causes are removed ,the functional proteinuria will disappear.
Pathological proteinuria is persistent proteinuria resulted from damaged ....
protein in urine continued to occur as some systerm or visceral organ have disease. Generally speaking ,more 150 mg protien in urine per 24 hours.
General in the three kinds
1. Glomerular proteinuria
Because of some reasons, glomerular capillary wall is damaged(such as immune damage), which makes the load reduce or lose and result in increased glomerular permeability. So, after more plasma protein filter ,beyond the heavy absorption ability of the renal tubular and lead to proteinuria. Such as acute or chronic nephritis, lupus nephritis, diabetic nephropathy and other. Much more protein leak from glomeruli, amount of which beyond renal tubule's readsorption ability and finally proteinuria is formed.
2. Tubular proteinuria
when renal tubular becomes disease or renal tubular function faults , its heavy absorption ability decreases or secretion protien increases,lead to proteinuria. Such as renal tubular acidosis , kidney diseasa originate from analgesic, Antibiotic renal toxic performance etc
3、exudative proteinuria (dissolve proteinuria) patients' urine become murky when it heat to 40℃ ,freezing when it heat to 60℃, dissolution when it heat to 100℃. Tubular proteinuria is more common in myeloma, Primary amyloidosis, gigantic globulin hematic disease.
In case of pathological proteinuria, you must make treatment purpose clear and not eliminate protein blindly. We must remove the reason that cause proteinuria and achieve the purpose of treat disease fundamentally.

Overview about Polycystic Kidney Disease

Just as its name implies, PKD means there are numerous cysts in kidney. Why are there cysts? What effect do the cysts have on our body? Let’s learn the basic knowledge of the PKD together!
PKD is marked by fluid collection in kidney which develop slowly in both kidneys. With the growing of the cysts, the structure of the kidney is damaged. It is a kind of single-gene hereditary disease which is divided into autosomal dominant PKD and autosomal recessive PKD. The former is more common than the latter.
Under the effect of the toxin, infection and other environmental factors, allele mutation happens to the cyst gene, resulting to epithelial cell proliferation and forming tiny polyp, blocking kidney tubules, gathering liquid. And the composition of the basilar membrane is unusual, and the adaptability of the basilar membrane is poor, then the membrane is easy to expand to the cyst. The most of the cell is changed, making the enzyme of Na+-K+-ATP which can secrete liquid plunge into the inner membrance, and the cyst increase progressively. The wall of cysts comes from any part of nephron, including proximal convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubule and concentrated pipe.
As report goes, one patient in four who has PKD will develop into renal failure, requiring dialysis or kidney transplant to replace functions of failed kidney. Why is it?
In the early- stage of the PKD, Cysts are small in size and hardly cause influence on the blood circulation. Most people with PKD don’t know they are suffering this disease, so they miss the best opportunity for treatment. As soon as we have backache, high blood pressure, blood urine or proteinuria, we ought to go to a doctor to make comprehensive diagnosis. We should do our best to control the condition. Later, we begin to have anemia, then cysts will appear around liver and other organs. The final result is kidney function declines. At this time, we must use dialysis. Besides, we also can use micro-chinese medicine osmotherapy which can promote the blood in kidneys and enhance the flow speed of the blood. The cysts in patients can be kept in a stable condition.
PKD can not be cured completely. We can take medicine to control blood pressure, to prevent infection and to reduce pain. We also can use micro-chinese medicine to activite and support blood.
The above is a simple introduction of PKD. All the PKD patients should attach great importance to this disease

2013年3月21日星期四

Treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy

Treatment principles for Diabetic Nephropathy goes as follow:(1) strict control of blood glucose, blood glucose near normal levels as possible to prevent and delay the occurrence of diabetic nephropathy; ② slow the rate of kidney dysfunction; ③ dialysis treatment and kidney transplantation.
1. Strict control of blood glucose, before the onset of clinical diabetic nephropathy is in the early stage of diabetes, insulin pump or multiple subcutaneous insulin strict control of diabetes, blood sugar basically normal, can delay or even prevent the occurrence and development of diabetic nephropathy and reduce increased glomerular filtration rate and improve microalbuminuria. Are other complications benefits. According to DCCT study, T1DM intensive treatment with insulin, 35% -55% reduction in the risk of diabetic nephropathy. Has been developed to clinical diabetic nephropathy, proteinuria, little help control blood sugar their disease progresses. Generally should be used instead of insulin antidiabetic drugs in clinical diabetic nephropathy.
Control of hypertension, high blood pressure will promote the development of renal failure, effective antihypertensive therapy can slow the rate of decline in glomerular filtration rate, reduced urinary albumin excretion. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor antagonists can be used as the drug of choice, often in combination with other antihypertensive drugs. Other antihypertensive drugs such as calcium antagonists, diuretics, beta-blockers, methyldopa, clonidine, etc. is also effective. Diabetes, blood pressure ≥ 130 / / 80mmHg should with antihypertensive drugs, should be controlled below 130 / / 80mmHg. Treatment with antihypertensive drugs, the relative health of the glomerular glomerular capillary pressure drop and continue to survive, while the already damaged glomerular soon completely blocked, the water can not be filtered, the protein can not escape. Was observed in 135 / / 85-mmHg blood pressure dropped from 160 / / 95mmHg, urinary protein excretion was significantly reduced, the rate of decline in glomerular filtration rate dropped from lml / / min · January 0.35ml / / min · month . Survival of patients with diabetic nephropathy was significantly prolonged antihypertensive treatment before the 10-year cumulative mortality of 50% -70% to 18% after treatment. Antihypertensive treatment of diabetic retinopathy.
3. Limit protein intake, appropriate to reduce the amount of protein in the diet (0.8 / / kg · d) glomeruli can reduce stress, reduce high filtration and reduce proteinuria. In contrast to the high-protein diet will increase glomerular histological lesions. There have renal insufficiency should limit protein intake, should eat high protein containing essential amino acids.
Dialysis treatment and kidney transplantation, the event of renal failure, dialysis treatment and kidney transplantation is the only effective way. A kidney transplant is the best way to treat diabetes uremia better than dialysis. Age> 65 years of age transplantation in patients with poor results...

How to Improve Polycystic Kidney Disease Prognosis

Polycystic Kidney Disease prognosis differs from case to case, because the prognosis of it depends on many factors like its type, complications, treatment methods, diet and nursing care.
Types of Polycystic Kidney Disease: According to genetic characteristics, PKD is divided into two types: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD). ADPKD is more common. ADPKD usually occurs in the family gathered, the female and the male have equal opportunity to suffer from this disease, and the patients may appear in successive generations. ARPKD (also known as infantile polycystic kidney disease) usually occurs in infancy. Only a few ARPKD patients can live to children and even adults.
Complications: common complications of PKD include polycystic liver, kidney stone, urinary tract infection and kidney stone and so on. By improving these complications into under control, Polycystic Kidney Disease prognosis can be improved greatly.
Treatment method: with right treatment method, PKD prognosis also can be called improved. In some cases, patients are simply prescribed with oral medicine to control symptoms. Actually, it is far from enough, PKD patients also need to stop the enlargement of cyst.
Diet: generally, low-protein diet and low-salt diet are helpful for slowing down the progression of PKD and improving the prognosis of PKD.
Good nursing care: having a good nursing also helps to improve PKD prognosis.

How does Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis Cause Kidney Failure



Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis Causes Kidney Failure if left uncontrolled. This article mainly explain how Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis Causes Kidney Failure and knowing about this is helpful for us to choose treatment.
Diagnosis of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis is based on mesangial proliferation of glomeruli. With Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis, IgA and some immune complexes can be detected in mesangial area. IgA and immune complexes release inflammatory factor which stimulate our kidney and thus causes inflammatory reaction.
Inflammatory reaction is a kind of self-protective reaction, through which, inflammatory reaction can be removed effectively. However, if our immune system is abnormal, inflammatory reaction will last and becomes more and more intense. Usually, when immoderate inflammatory reaction causes damage our own renal functional cells, which impair our kidney function. Usually, when kidney damages are caused by Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis appears. With no effective treatment, more and more renal functional cells, kidney functions becomes poorer and poorer and finally, kidney failure appears.
Kidney failure is the end consequence of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis and it appears when kidneys are totally failed. However, not everyone with Henoch-Schonlein Purpura will certainly suffer from Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis. For Henoch-Schonlein Purpura patients, if they get their disease controlled timely and effectively, kidney damages can be avoided and obviously, kidney failure can be avoided.
When Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis is diagnosed, many patients adopt hormone medications as their treatment. However, hormone medications only help to remove symptoms, and they can not remove IgA and immune complexes. Immune complexes are the root causes of kidney damages, so as long as them exist in kidney, new kidney damages will be caused and Henoch-Schonlein Purpura patients eventually run to kidney failure.
At present, only Immunotherapy is effective in removing immune complexes and IgA. Through this treatment, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura patients can be brought under control effectively and consequently, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis stop developing to kidney failure.

2013年3月20日星期三

Causes of Nephrotic Syndrome


What is Nephrotic Syndrome?
Nephrotic Syndrome is not a single disease. It is a group of symptoms which include massive proteinuria, edema, hyperlipemia and hyproteinemia. Nephrotic Syndrome is the outcome of number of diseases that damage the filtering units of the kidneys.
Causes of Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic syndrome has many causes and may either be the result of a disease limited to the kidney.
Minimal change disease
Minimal change disease is the most common cause of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome and the disorder leads to abnormal function of kidney. The examination of kidney tissue under a microscope shows normal or nearly normal. The cause of the abnormal function typically can not be determined.
Focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS)
FSGS creates scar tissue in the glomerulus,damaging its protein-repellant membrane and is Characterized by scattered scarring of some of the glomeruli, this condition may result from another disease or a genetic defect or occur for no known reason.
IgA nephropathy
IgA also called Berger's disease is a kind of autoimmune disease. A causing an inflammatory reaction and leading to glomerulonephritis.
Diabetic kidney disease
Diabetes can lead to kidney damage (diabetic nephropathy) that affects the glomeruli.
Infections
Infections can also cause Nephrotic Syndrome such a HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
Medicines
Medicines such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, penicillamine, gold therapy, or captopril.

2013年3月19日星期二

How to treat Membranous Nephropathy Correctly

Your disease now commonly used four treatment programs, traditional Chinese medicine alone, purely Western medicine, Western medicine superimposed Integrative blocking renal fibrosis. But in the course of your treatment, whether you use Western medicine treatment, or the use of Chinese medicine to the implementation of treatment, through the following four steps are required to achieve the desired effect.
1) vasodilator: What is the purpose of vasodilators? Immune complex deposition break your collective self-adjust the level to cause kidney ischemia and hypoxia, while vasodilators can improve the state of the blood of kidney blood circulation system, alleviate kidney ischemia and hypoxia, Next epithelial cellular repair to provide a good environment.
2 anti-inflammatory: The purpose of the anti-inflammatory is the release of inflammatory cytokines, reduce inflammatory cell infiltration, reduce re-injury of glomerular epithelial cells.
3 anticoagulation: inflammatory cells in the blood increase, will release a large number of inflammatory factors and clotting factor, increase the viscosity of the blood to a certain extent, this will lead to microthrombi in the glomerular capillary formation. Anticoagulant drug use is the use of anticoagulants is to ensure the quality of blood circulation, and to lay the foundation for the repair of the epithelial cells
Degradation: increased inflammatory cells in the glomerular capillary and vascular microthrombi immune garbage, and the release of inflammatory factors led to the deposition of immune complexes, will glomerular capillaries cytoplasm of epithelial and basement membrane deposition was aggregation and an increase in extracellular matrix. For this must go through to use drugs to degradation deposition and extracellular matrix so excreted with the urine.
  Through the rational application of the four treatment measures, the damage to the epithelial cells of the glomerular capillary repair place, improving function of the epithelial cell damage, improved disease ', you proteinuria edema The clinical symptoms will disappear.

Different Treatments for Glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis is an abnormal kdney disorder and can be treated with different treatmet methods. The following is the introduction about treatment for Glomerulonephritis. Hope it is helpful for you.
Medicines for Glomerulonephritis
Prescription medications may be used to control or treat the cause of glomerulonephritis including:
Blood pressure medications, including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which lower blood pressure
Corticosteroids, such as prednisone or methylprednisone, which control inflammation
Immunosuppressant drugs, which prevent the immune system from attacking the glomeruli
Immunotherapy for Glomerulonephritis
Immunotherapy shows great treatment effects on Glomerulonephritis becasue it can help to remove the root cause of this disease. Glomerulonephritis progresses becasue of inflamamtion in the kidney caused by immune complexes which is formed when antigen combines with antibody. Immune complexes deposite in kidney and cause inflmmation , leading to the occurrence of further kidney damages. Once immune complexes in the kidney are removed, further kidney damages are avoided and Glomerulonephritis is stopped from the root.
Dialysis and kidney transplant
Dialysis and kidney transplant are the two most conventional medical methods for people with completely failed kidney. They are the last two choice for Glomerulonephritis patients, so to aovid dialysis or kidney transplant, avoiding kidney failure is the key point for Glomerulonephritis patients.

Treatment for IgA Nephropathy

IgA nephropathy (nuh-FROP-uh-the) is a common kidney disease that occurs when an antibody called immunoglobulin A (IgA) lodges in your kidneys. IgA Nephropathy can cause kidney failure, if we do not stop the progression of it, so having a timely and effective treatmet about IgA Nephropathy means a lot for patients.
IgA Nephropathy is an autoimmune disease and many medications can be used to deal with it in clnic. Medicines such as prednisone may help treat IgA nephropathy. Prednisone belongs to a class of medicines called corticosteroids, which can have harmful side effects. In research studies, fish oil supplements containing omega 3 fatty acids also slowed kidney damage in some patients. Vitamin E may help lower protein in the urine but not blood. One of the newer immunosuppressive agents called mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is also being tested in treating IgA nephropathy.
Besides, Immunotherapy, a combination of western medicines and Chinese medicines, can be used to treat IgA Nephropathy. Immunotherapy is a new treatment for IgA kidney problem,  but clinical experments have provent that this treatment has great treatment effects on IgA Nephropathy. In the Immunothrapy, the whole process is mainly divided into 6 steps: immune diagnosis, immune blocking, immune tolerance, immune adjstment, immune clearance and immune protction. These six steps focus on different clinic purpose and with these several steps, IgA can be finally removed from mesangial area. We know IgA Nephropathy progresses because of the inflammation caused by IgA deposition, so removing these deposion is very necessary.
Immunotherapy is a new treatment, but it holds great promise for IgA Nephropathy patients. If you want to learn more about this treatment, please feel free to consult me: phoebe871124@gmail.com

Prognosis of Nephrotic Syndrome

Overview
It is well known that Nephrotic syndrome is charactered by the symptoms of proteinuria, edema, hyperlipidaemia, and hypoalbuminaemia. It has serious complications and must be on the differential diagnosis for any patient presenting with new-onset edema.A thorough assessment for the underlying cause of nephrotic syndrome is essential to a good prognosis.
History and symptoms
Mostly, the age is over 40 ~ 50 year old, History of hypertension is over 5 ~ 10 years. Early only night urination is increased, and then proteinuria ensues. Individual cases, due to capillary broken and can occur transient gross hematuria. But it is not with obvious lumbago,often merge arteriosclerosis retinopathy,left ventricular hypertrophy,coronary heart disease, heart failure, cerebral arteriosclerosis and cerebrovascular accident history. The course of disease is jogging along. Few of them gradually developed into kidney failure. Most of them is kidney perennial mild damage and routine urine abnormalities. The diastolic pressure of malignant hypertension should be more than 16 Kpa (120 mmHg), with obvious cardio-cerebral complications and rapid development, large proteinuria, often with hematuria, and the progressive of renal function is deceased.
Prognosis of Nephrotic Syndrome
The onset of Nephrotic Syndrome depends on the underlying cause and the causes of it varies. Some patients may have a spontaneous recovery, while others worsen despite aggressive. A number of children "outgrow" this disease in their late teens or early adulthood.
Nephrotic Syndrome is featured by relapse and recurrence. On an average, chances of recurrence or relapse of Nephrotic Syndrome is as high as 50-75%. The attacks are more frequent in the first one to two years after the Nephrotic Syndrome begins. Thus a good prognosis contributes to Nephrotic Syndrome patients.

Treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome

Overview
Specific treatment of nephrotic syndrome depends on the cause and the age of the person who has the condition. Medicines, changes in diet, and care for other conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, are all possible treatments for this syndrome. These treatments may reverse, slow, or prevent further kidney damage.
Specific treatment
In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, your treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome is customized based on your own disease conditions. It can guarantee you to get the best treatment outcomes. Some of the nation’s top experts can deliver the most-advanced therapies with the least impact on your body.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmosis Therapy
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a specific therapy which is summed up by Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital according to years' experience in treating Nephrotic Syndrome. Its core technique is refined grinding of effective agents for Nephrotic Syndrome treatment, to make the active ingredient fully release and mix up, then with the help of effective penetrant and penetration equipment, penetrate the active ingredient into kidney focus achieving the object of effectively treating kidney disease. This specific therapy not only improve the symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome, but also repairs kidney function and treat the disease on the root. Moreover, this therapy is proved by clinical experience that it’s effective and convenient.
Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is a breakthrough in treating kidney disease including Nephrotic Syndrome and it brings new hope for the patients with kidney disease. At present, Immunotherapy has been applied to treat Nephrotic Syndromesuccessfully and it include six steps: immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune blocking, immune tolerance, immune regulation and immune protection.
Immunotherapy can help patients with Nephrotic Syndrome remove these immune complex, restrain the immune reaction and restore the immunity network. Immunotherapy can treat Nephrotic Syndrome from the root cause and prevent the relapse.

Immunotherapy-the best treatment for Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis is inflammation of the kidney that is caused by systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), with lupus, the body’s immune system targets its own body tissues. Lupus Nephritis happens when lupus involves the kidneys.
An estimated one-third to one-half of lupus patients develop Lupus Nephritis within the first six months to three years of their lupus diagnosis. When the kidneys are inflamed, they can't function normally and can leak protein. If not controlled, lupus nephritis can lead to kidney failure. What is the most efficient treatment for Lupus Nephritis?
We adopt Immunotherapy to help patients with Lupus Nephritis control the condition well and prevent it developing into kidney failure. From the information above, we know that if we want to treating Lupus Nephritis, we must adjust the innate immune system of human body and make it abnormal. The treatment that can only treat proteinuria, blood in urine and other symptoms is not we want.
Firstly, the toxins and the circulating immune complexes in the body should be removed out of body by the advanced blood purification techniques, which helps the patients with Lupus Nephritis create a clean inner environment and increase the efficiency of medicine used in the following steps. Then we will use immune blocking to restrain the immune inflammation reaction and stop the further damage to kidneys, at this stage we will use the immunosuppressive drugs. Chinese herbal medicine will be used and play an important role in immune adjustment and immune protection. The Chinese herbal medicine can not only eliminate the immune complexes depositing in the kidneys through promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and also provide the nutrient for kidneys and the whole body. After the Immunotherapy, the damaged kidneys will be repaired, kidney function will be recovered, and the innate immune system of human body will be rebuilt.

2013年3月17日星期日

The Causes of Renal Failure

Generally, renal failure can be caused by acute renal failure and chronic renal failure. As for the cause of renal failure, we will explain from these two points:
1 Acute renal failure can be caused by the following three factors according to the statistics of recent 30 years:
Firstly, wound, burn wound, bleeding and shock all can lead to acute renal failure.
Secondly, kinds of medicines such as gentamicin, streptomycin, tobramycin can also lead to renal failure. In addition, pesticide and metal can also lead to acute renal nephritis and so on.
Thirdly, stone, tumor, operation can also lead to renal failure.
2. Chronic kidney failure can be caused by the following main factors:
Firstly, high blood pressure or hypertension is a leading cause of kidney failure both in China and America. High blood pressure makes the heart work harder, which will damage the blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidney are damaged, it will stop removing waste and extra-fluid, which will in turn make blood pressure higher even more. In America, about 25,000 new cases of renal failure appear caused by long time high blood pressure.
Secondly, diabetes is another dominate factor which can lead to chronic kidney failure especially in America. In diabetes,beta cells in pancreas is damaged, which can not secrete insulin. The main function of insulin is to convert sugar into energy. If insulin is not enough, sugar will stay in the blood which leads to high blood sugar and cause damage to the blood vessels. When the blood vessels are damaged in the kidney, diabetic kidney diseases will come into being.
Thirdly, PKD,chronic renal glomerular nephritis such as lupus nephritis, purpura nephritis and so on will also can lead to chronic kidney failure if not treated well.

New Treatments for IgA Nephropathy

IgA Nephropathy is a common kidney disease and it is an autoimmune kidney disorders which is characterized by the deposition of IgA as well as other immune complexes in the glomerular mesangial areas. The main clinical manifestation is hematuria with or without proteinuria. In serious cases, it is easy to cause severe hypertension or renal insufficiency it not effective treatments are received timely and in the end the disease will gradually develop into renal failure.
The kidneys are vital organs to human beings and it can help maintain the balances in the internal environment and in case of IgA nephropathy, the kidney can not function normally and there will be excessive accumulation of immune complexes and metabolic wastes in the body and patients will have a series of symptoms and signs and their life quality will be greatly affected.
Conventional therapies for IgA nephropathy are mainly to use hormones and cytotoxic drugs to suppress the abnormal immune inflammations. However this is just symptomatic treatment which only aims at alleviating the symptoms without any repairing of the kidney damages, therefore the disease is easy to relapse under some inducements such as cold, fever or infections. What is worse, long term intake of hormones and immunosuppressive will cause a lot of side effects and complications to the patients.
Since the root cause of IgA nephropathy is the dysfunction of the immune system which cause the deposition of IgA and other immune complexes in the kidneys and cause a series of symptoms, the key point in treating IgA is to regulate the disorders in the kidneys and eliminating IgA and other immune complexes out of the body. In this regard, the latest therapy---immunotherapy has particularly good curative effects on IgA nephropathy.
Immunotherapy consists of six steps include immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune blockage, immune tolerance, immune regulation and immune protections. The mechanism of immunotherapy is to eliminating the immune complexes and other metabolic wastes out of the body by dilating blood vessels and speeding up blood circulation. Then the damaged kidneys will be repair and the after the therapy the kidney functions will be recovered and the immunity will be enhanced.
Keywords: IgA nephropathy, treatments, immunotherapy

Prognosis of IgA Nephropathy

The typical pathological change is the deposition of IgA in the glomerular mesangial area and most patients will also have the concomitant deposition of C3, IgG and IgM.
IgA can be divided into 5 stages according to the severity of the illness condition. The disease will experience progressive deterioration without effective and timely treatments. Therefore an early treatment is very important and we all know that the earlier the treatment is received, the less damage it will cause and the better the curative effects and prognosis.
There are many factors that can affect the prognosis of IgA nephropathy and all aspects should be taken into account in regarding the prognosis. The prognoses vary a lot from person to person. Some patients can have complete recover while there are about 15% to 40% patients will develop into chronic renal failure if not treated well or properly.
The factors that will affect the patients’ prognosis include:
1. The elderly patients and if they have symptoms late, the prognosis is poor;
2. Those that have persistent microscopic hematuria with proteinuria has poor prognosis;
3. Those that have renal insufficiency have poor prognosis;
4. Those that have hypertension especially severe hypertension have poor prognosis.
To help achieve a better prognosis, careful nursing cares are very important:
1. Have enough rest and adequate sleep. Daily sleep should be more than 8 hours and in case of hematuria, patients should stop work and stay in bed;
2. Have low-salt, low-fat, low-phosphorus, high-calcium and high quality protein such as milk, fish and avoid animal offal and excitant foods;
3. Have close observation of the blood pressure and maintain the balance of water and electrolyte;
4. Have moderate exercise such as qigong and tai chi;
5. Positive prevention of infections such as colds, upper respiratory tract infections.
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The symptoms of Lupus Nephritis


Lupus Nephritis or lupus glomerulonephritis is when an inflammation of the kidney occurs and is caused by the disease of the immune system called "systemic lupus erythematosus" or "SLE". It is estimated that approximately one third of the individuals who have systemic lupus erythematosus will develop Lupus Nephritis. Many patients may be wondering what the symptoms of Lupus Nephritis.
There are typically few apparent symptoms or signs of Lupus Nephritis. A patient with Lupus Nephritis will typically not feel pain in the abdomen or back, however, when kidney damage has occurred due to SLE, it will cause an excess amount of protein to leak from the kidneys into the urine causing frequent urination and when the urine is excreted it may appear frothy.
This loss of protein can cause "edema" which is water retention that causes the swelling of the hands, feet, ankles, and also causes an individual to gain weight. Swelling is typically not noticed in the morning and begins to occur during the day becoming progressively worse.
The clinical path of Lupus Nephritis is highly variable.
1) Often the signs of Lupus Nephritis are seen only in urine studies.
· In many people, the urine abnormalities are very mild and may be present during one examination and absent the next.
· This form of Lupus Nephritis is rather common and generally does not require any special medical evaluation or treatment.
2) In some people, though, abnormal findings in the urine studies may persist or even worsen over time.
· People with this type of Lupus Nephritis are at risk for loss of kidney function.
· These individuals will need additional studies to assess the extent of their Lupus Nephritis and to determine the best treatment for controlling the disease.

What causes Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis is an inflammation of the kidney caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disease of the immune system. In the following content, we will see what causes the Lupus Nephritis, hope the information could help you.
The root cause of Lupus Nephritis is the immune system disorder. When the immune system of patients with lupus becomes abnormal, the B lymphocyte will have the excessive activation, then the virulent Anti-DNA antibody will be produced. These anti-DNA antibody will first combine with the DNA, nucleosome, histone in the blood and then produce the immune complexes. These immune complexes will flow through every corner of the body with the blood. Because the kidneys have the special substance which can attract some immune complexes to deposit in the kidneys.
When the immune complexes deposit in kidneys, kidneys will treat them as the foreign body, so the huam body will release some inflammatory mediators to take part in the immune inflammation reaction whose purpose is to eliminate these immune complexes. However, the immune inflammation will also damage the kidneys, so kidney damage happens. Then lots of symptoms appear. With the kidney damage becomes worse and worse, less and less kidney function will be left, finally, the Lupus Nephritis develops into kidney failure or uremia.
From the above information, we know that the treatment patients with Lupus Nephritis need is the one that can eliminate the immune complexes both in the blood and in the kidneys, and stop the immune inflammation reaction and repair the damaged kidneys.

The prognosis of Lupus Nephritis

Generally speaking, the prognosis of Lupus Nephritis is not good. The morbidity of Lupus Nephritis is 50 cases/100,000 people. The pathological examination shows that there are about 90% SLE patients who have renal function damaged.
In clinial, patients with Lupus Nephritis will be treated by medicines, however, it seems to be not that efficient, there still many cases develop into kidney failure or uremia. At that time, patients have to receive dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospiatl, we use Immunotherapy to treat Lupus Nephritis, through this treatment, the prognosis of Lupus Nephritis will be imporved greatly.
Immunotherapy contains somes steps. We will use the advanced blood purification techniques to help patients eliminate the immune complexes in the blood and some toxins, which will create a nice internal environment. As to the immune complexes depositing in kidneys, we will use Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy to help patients remove these immune complexes out of body through promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The immune inflammation reaction must be stoped, otherwise, the kidneys will get the further damage, at this step, we use the western medicine to restrain the immune inflammation reaction. After finishing this, we need to repair the damaged kidneys, Chinese herbal medicine will be mainly used. The active materials will improve the state of hypoxia-ischemia of kidneys, and also it can provide the nutrient for the damaged kidneys.
From the above information, we can know that all the factors that can damage kidneys have been dealt with, and the kidney damage will be treated by the Chinese herbal medicine. So Immunotherapy is such a treatment that treats Lupus Nephritis from the root.
If patients with Lupus Nephritis can receive this treatment at the early stage, the condition is possible to be cured and controlled very well. If the condition has developed into kidney failure, we can help them avoid the dialysis or kidney transplant and imporve the quality of their life.

2013年3月16日星期六

Blood Urine in PKD

PKD is a most common inherited disease. With cysts becoming big, it will press the patients’ healthy functional cells (innate cells) and cause these cells damage. Then these damaged cells making the blood vessel pressed, on the one hand lead to the patients’ high pressure, on the other hand lead to kidney ischemia. Then the renal fibrosis starts forming, which aggravates the renal innate cells damage. In addition to all the above, these cells can’t prevent protein and red blood cell leaking out of blood any longer. So blood urine appears in the patients’ clinical symptoms.
Blood urine of PKD patients shows bright red mainly because cysts press and damage the renal innate cells. It easily causes serious anemia when urethra excretes a lot of passive congestion pieces. So treating blood urine is very important for PKD patients.
Many PKD patients have paid enough attention to their blood urine, but the disease still can’t be cured. The reason is that the treatment of oral use of medicine or puncturation taken by these patients is just to cure their symptoms not the cause of their disease. At this time, the patients may doubt whether there is an effective treatment to PKD in the world. Here I want to say” Chinese traditional medicine has opened a new treatment called micro-Chinese medicine osmotherapy to prevent renal fibrosis damaging renal innate cells, so don’t give up your treatment”.
According to the degree of renal innate cells damage and the color of blood urine, our treatment plan is divided into four steps:
(1)Control your condition caused by renal innate cells damage.
(2)Prompt sac liquid drop, reduce the pressure on renal innate cells, and recover these cells function gradually.
(3)Repair the damaged cells by providing the repairing substance to activate kidney repairing function.
(4) As long as your renal innate cells are repaired well, your body won’t be the present condition any more and you can still live to eighty even ninety years old.
With the above treatment, you pay more attention to dietary protein restriction and blood pressure control in the everyday life. I believe your blood urine will disappear and your disease will improve. It is our corporate goal to give you a good health. Please catching this opportunity, let’s fight for PKD together.

Polycystic Kidney Disease: Prognosis

According to genetic characteristics, polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disease, is divided into two types: autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease( ADPKD) and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease(ARPKD).For different types of polycystic kidney disease, the prognosis is not same and the factors affecting prognosis are various: infectious agent, athogenesis, pathological stages, clinical patterns, symptoms, inherited factors, individual differences and so on. The patients with ARPKD are usually in infancy and early childhood, and they usually die soon after the birth of death, so there are few studies and experiences on ARPKD. According to this reason, we emphasize the prognosis of ADPKD next.
ADPKD characterized by occurring in the family gathered together and appearing in successive generations is a common polycystic kidney disease (also known as adult polycystic kidney disease). Because of the increasing deep understanding of ADPKD, its prognosis has obviously been improved. But individual differences of the patients are larger, and their length of the course closely relates with their complications. So the patient having more complications and progressive uremia, his prognosis will be worse. If the patients have renal insufficiency but don’t have complications, their course will develop slowly and prognosis will be better. In summary: the clinical manifestation and the treatment to ADPKD has been the key to the prognosis.
To ADPKD patients, they should abide by some orders in the process of prognosis:
·keep a good mood and build up the confidence of conquering the disease
·communicate with the doctor timely and use drugs scientifically
·don’t eat the salt or spicy food, and the patients with renal insufficiency can’t eat the food containing a lot of protein or fat
·pay more attention to rest and avoid strenuous physical activities
·prevent infection in the urethra and cyst
·control hypertension to avoid the renal insufficiency occurring
Above is the explaining to “polycystic kidney disease prognosis”, we hope it can be helpful for the patients. Please remember having a happy mood and a good life habit can slow your course of your disease and give you a healthier body.

2013年3月14日星期四

Diet Nursing for Dialysis Patients

At present, blood purification equipments update constantly and this has helped to significantly prolong the patients' survival time. However, with constant dialysis, the patients will lose their appetite and may suffer from many other diseases because of malnutrition. So, diet nursing for dialysis patients has become an important topic.
1. Get enough protein
Dialysis can make the patient lose a certain amount of protein and amino acid, and it can also promote protein alienation effect, resulting in negative nitrogen balance. Therefore, dialysis patients should get more protein. Eighty percent of patients should get high-quality protein such as egg white, milk, lean, fish, etc. Such high-quality protein can increase the utilization of protein and produce less metabolic waste.
2. A moderate amount of calorie intake
Sufficient calories can restrain protein alienation and help the patient maintain their weight. If their calorie intake is insufficient, the protein will be consumed as calories. It can produce more metabolic waste just because protein decomposing metabolism accelerates.
3. Maintain the water balance and limit the salt intake
Most of dialysis patients have less urine or no urine, so they should control their water intake strictly and eat less food that contains a lot of water. Maintaining the water balance is the key to prevent complications and increase the survival rate of dialysis patients. Eating much salted food will make the patient thirsty, and then they will want to have more water. So limiting the salt intake is more important than limiting the water intake.
4. Restrict kalium, phosphorus intake
A high quantity of serum kalium can cause arrhythmia and cardiac failure, so dialysis patients should avoid the vegetables which contain a lot of kalium such as spinach, leaf mustard, balsam pear, chives, kelp, agaric, etc. Hyperphosphatemia can cause renal osteopathia, so limiting phosphorus intake in the diet nursing is very important. Phosphorus mainly exists in dairy products, egg yolks and animal innards and so on.
5. Increase water-soluble vitamin intake
Because dialysis patients lack of activated vitamin D, blood calcium concentration is relatively low. The patients inevitably lose water-soluble vitamins in the dialysis. So they must increase the intake of water-soluble vitamins.
Diet nursing is an ideal treatment for dialysis patients, so they should pay more attention to their diet in their daily life. Getting enough nutrition can help them to fight against their disease more powerfully.

2013年3月13日星期三

Will kidney failure patients finally suffer from dialysis or kidney transplant

“If I have Kidney Disease, will I ultimately need dialysis or kidney transplant?” This is a very common concern for Kidney Disease patients, and I can affirmatively give the answer to them, “No, you needn’t.” Then I will expound my reason in detail.
The stage in which Kidney Disease patients need to dialysis or kidney transplant: every body has two kidneys and in the normal situation, only one kidney is enough to guarantee our life, so the patients needn’t dialysis or kidney transplant if their kidneys can play their function. Patients begin dialysis or receive a kidney transplant only when they reach Stage 5 of Chronic Kidney Disease, the condition known as end-stage renal disease or kidney failure. Most patients’ conditions never progress to that point, so these patients can avoid dialysis and kidney transplant if they take effective treatment in the early stage.
The effective treatment for kidney disease patients—immunotherapy: just like in a wrestling match, only we ourselves are very strong, we can defeat our rivals. So the patients can also defeat their diseases if they have a good internal environment and a strong body. Immunotherapy can help the patients with kidney disease to clean their internal environment and rebuild their body through repairing their immune systems and enhance their ability to fight against the kidney disease. Immunotherapy is divided into six steps, and every step has its own function.
·Comprehensive diagnosis—it can help the doctor to make clear which type the patient’s disease is.
·Immune blocking—it can block patients’ inflammatory reaction and stop the damage of renal inherent cells with the use of some immunosuppressive drugs.
·Immune Tolerance—it can make the patients’ body adapt with these damaged cells and immune complexes through the immunosuppressive agents infusion regularly.
·Immune Adjustment—it can improve the kidney disease patient’s immunity to clear the pathogenic factors and enhance their body through Traditional Chinese medicine therapy especially Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
·Immune Protection—it can help to protect the renal inherent cells from damaging, so these cells can be repaired gradually and the patients can avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.
·Immune Clearance—it can help the patients to remove the pathogenic factors and give back a good internal environment and a strong body to the kidney disease patients.
The earlier diagnosis and the more effective treatment, the less chance of dialysis and kidney transplant will happen on the kidney disease patients. Immunotherapy can help the early-stage patients to avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.

Why Plasma Exchange Is Better Than Blood Dialysis for Lupus Nephritis

Is Plasma Exchange really better than blood dialysis for Lupus Nephritis patients? If we want to solve this question, we must first make clear what causes Lupus Nephritis. Lupus Nephritis is the most common kidney disease caused by Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
SLE is a typical autoimmune disease that always invades many other systems and organs. When SLE invades our kidney, Lupus Nephritis will happen. So we can clearly know the immune disorder, which includes the abnormalities of immune tolerance, B cell hyperfunction, T cell dysfunction and abnormal cell factors, is the pathogenesis of Lupus Nephritis, and the immune disorder can produce many immune complexes. These immune complexes deposited in the glomerulus can damage our kidney function, and then Lupus Nephritis happens.
When our SLE develops into Lupus Nephritis, most of us have to choose blood purification as the substitute of our kidney function. But at this time, we want to ask whether we can maintain our normal life just through the ordinary dialysis equipments. If we want to know the answer, we must know something about blood dialysis and plasma exchange.
What is the difference between blood dialysis and plasma exchange?
Ordinary blood dialysis as many kidney disease patients’ choice only can help us to clear away the small molecules such as urea nitrogen, creatinine, electrolyte and water, while the plasma exchange can help us to eliminate not only the small molecules but also the middle molecules and macromolecules such as immune complex, immune globulin, albumin, bilirubin, etc.
Why should Lupus Nephritis patients choose plasma exchange not dialysis? The above has mentioned that the substances which can cause Lupus Nephritis are mainly immune complexes especially DNA immune complex. Blood dialysis can’t help us to eliminate these substances, so the Lupus Nephritis patients have to choose plasma exchange.
Now, I believe we can surely say that plasma exchange is really better than blood dialysis for Lupus Nephritis patients.

2013年3月6日星期三

Side Effects of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Kidney Failure


1.Long-term dialysis patients are at high risk to develop dialysis amyloidosis - carpal tunnel syndrome.
2. Hyperparathyroidism caused by metastatic calcification, pruritus, severe arrhythmias.
3. Renal osteodystrophy, renal rickets, the aluminum poisoning bone disease, amyloidosis osteodystrophy.
Dialysis encephalopathy, aluminum toxic dementia.
Uremic cardiomyopathy, myopathy.
6. Malnutrition.
Vision loss and blindness in severe cases.
Acquired renal cysts.
9. Immunocompromised, susceptible, prone to tumors.
What is a kidney transplant?
Kidney transplantation is commonly known as the "kidney transplant", but this is not a new kidney replacement original kidneys, but the new kidney is implanted in the patient's body, generally the iliac fossa, instead of the original work of the kidneys.
Kidney transplantation has been recognized as the best treatment method for the treatment of chronic renal failure and uremia. Used in clinical renal transplantation more than 40 years, all organ transplant, a kidney transplant efficacy and safety of the best. All renal failure, uremia patients can do a kidney transplant?
Kidney transplant surgery and other surgery compared to a high-risk surgery. Patients with renal failure because of the various systems of the body may damage and dysfunction, so not all patients with renal failure can do a kidney transplant, kidney transplant, said doctors in general clinical indications:
Kidney transplant is actually no longer age restrictions, but by age influence the effect of renal transplantation, kidney transplant from a baby of a few months to more than 80-year-old man can. General age requirement of 13-60 years old, good physical condition, may be appropriate to relax; older than 55 years old by surgery complications increased, the relative increase in the risk; younger than 13 years of age, especially in less than 4 years old the recipients, kidney transplant surgery significantly increased the difficulty of these affect the success rate of the surgery and effect.
By dialysis treatment in good physical condition uremic patients can renal transplant. But part of disease, kidney transplantation prone to complications should be careful.
Various primary or secondary kidney disease: glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, hereditary nephritis, polycystic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, hypertension, arteriosclerosis nephropathy, drug-induced renal damage, lupus nephritis and so feasible renal transplantation.
Abnormal liver function, ulcer disease, lung infections, urinary tract infections, tuberculosis, heart failure, pericardial effusion must be cured before kidney transplantation.
For hepatitis B, hepatitis C virus infection required after treatment, liver function to normal one month after renal transplantation as well. Interferon therapy should not be within a short time after renal transplantation. Contraindications and relative contraindications kidney transplant?
Uremic patients at the same time suffering from cancer, chronic respiratory failure, severe vascular disease, coagulation disorders, intractable heart failure, psychosis, severe urinary tract malformations and difficult to cure infected are not suitable for renal transplantation.
Uremia associated with more severe coronary heart disease and nephritis, polycystic kidney disease associated with severe polycystic liver renal transplantation should be careful. Significantly increased risk of postoperative infection, severe liver damage, kidney disease recurrence in the short term, and heart attack increased cardiac accidents.
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2013年3月5日星期二

Common symptoms of different kidney diseases

There are different kinds of kidney disease which can bring us different symptoms.Now, let's learn the common symptoms of different kidney diseases.
● acute nephritis: acute onset of varying severity. The symptoms of proteinuria, hematuria, edema, hypertension, oliguria into azotemia, and may be accompanied by fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and abdominal pain. Seen in all age groups, but is common in children 6 to 10 years old.
● nephrotic syndrome: massive proteinuria, hypoproteinemia, edema, elevated cholesterol.
● IgA nephropathy: repeated attacks, the naked eye and sustained microscopic hematuria, may be associated with varying degrees of proteinuria and nephrotic occult blood or respiratory tract infection or asymptomatic urinary abnormalities, or manifestations of chronic nephritis, or performance of levy, common low back pain and other symptoms. More common in young adults.
● chronic nephritis latent: onset, progress has been slow, light can be heavy or light weight, abnormal urine, edema, anemia, hypertension, azotemia, often due to upper respiratory tract infections induce or aggravate or associated with nephrotic syndrome, acute exacerbation of chronic nephritis, or similar acute nephritis.
● lupus nephritis: is the bone small ulcers secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus needed damage common in young women, most of the patients first systemic lupus erythematosus symptoms (such as fever, skin lesions, multiple joint pain, etc.), clinical appear on kidney disease, kidney lesions after systemic system involvement. The nephropathy performance light asymptomatic nephritis (only abnormal urine), nephrotic syndrome, a common chronic nephritis, an indisputable progressive nephritis.
● allergic purpura secondary purpura nephritis: kidney disease, common in children, most of the first symptoms of allergic purpura was followed by kidney disease, characterized as nephrotic syndrome or chronic renal fire syndrome.
● HBV-associated glomerulonephritis: glomerular damage, hepatitis B result usually presents with asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria, acute nephritic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome or renal insufficiency.
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Will Kidney Disease Appear Again after Kidney Transplant?

Will kidney disease appear again after kidney transplant? I believe this is the question that most of the kidney failure patients who tend to do kidney transplant care about. So what is the answer at all?
As a matter of fact, some kidney diseases like FSGS indeed occur to patients again after their kidney transplant. Kidney transplant is a medical procedure, in which a healthy kidney is put into kidney failure patient's body to replace the failed kidney. This method is helpful as some patients can live a normal life without dialysis after kidney transplant, but the problem is that kidney transplant does not remove the causes of previous kidney failure.
For some kidney failure patients, they suffer from kidney problem because of their primary diseases like Hypertension and Diabetes and so on. For these people, kidney transplant just help them replace the failed kidney with a healthy kidney, and it can not help them remove the causes of kidney failure, say hypertension and Diabetes,etc. Therefore, under such a circumstance, even if their failed kidney is replaced, their new kidney can be damaged again. For people with kidney failure caused by other diseases, controlling primary disease is extremely important for them to bring kidney disease under control no matter they choose kidney transplant or not.
Kidney transplant is a method for kidney failure, but it has many side effects. For instance, after kidney transplant, patients are very likely to suffer from injection which need them to take anti-rejection tablets. Long-term taking of anti-injection will weaken our immunity, which is also bad to our healthy. Also, internal bleeding also occurs easily after kidney transplant and this may deprive patient's life immediately. Therefore, being kidney transplant, kidney failure patients should think over it carefully.
Actually, kidney transplant is not the only option for kidney failure patients. Aside from dialysis and kidney transplant, they also can choose Immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is a natural treatment which treats kidney failure through increasing kidney function. It causes no side effects, and if you are interested in this treatment, welcome to consult us to get more information.

2013年3月2日星期六

Why Do Patients Feel Tired And Nauseous After Dialysis?

Several times’ dialysis in one week or one month may make the patients frustrated. If they are tired and nauseous after dialysis, they will feel that every dialysis is tormenting them and they may reject dialysis as the time goes on. So to find out the reasons which make them tired and nauseous is very important for dialysis patients to stop these discomforts from happening.
According to the clinical research, dialysis patients’ nausea and tiredness due to several reasons (low blood pressure, infection, severe anemia, allergic reaction, etc). Next we will discuss each of these reasons more detailedly.
Low blood pressure
The incidence of low blood pressure accounts for 25-60 percent, so it is one of the most common causes, if not the most common cause, of patients’ tiredness and nausea after dialysis. In the dialysis treatment, a lot of fluid is removed to prevent it from accumulating in the body and producing too much urine. But the more fluid that has been removed, the greater the chance of dialysis patients feeling tired and nauseous will be.
Infection
Infection, as a common cause, can be observed easily. It indicates the patients have been infected if fever and chill occur after the dialysis, and the infection can damage not only the kidney but also many other organs. So dialysis patients should let their doctor or nurse know their problem.
Severe anemia
Ordinary people suffering severe anemia usually feel very tired and dizzy. The dialysis patients’ reaction to severe anemia must be stronger because much nutrition is lost during the dialysis. Then severe anemia can aggravate the dialysis patients’ tiredness and nausea.
Allergic reaction
The number of the dialysis patients suffering from the allergic reaction may be smaller than the above reasons, but it can also make the patients have an ill feeling once the patients have an allergic reaction to the dialyzer. So the patients should not ignore this reason.
Feeling tired and nauseous can make dialysis patients painful and a long-time reaction to dialysis may cause these patients’ rejection to dialysis, so they can’t live with it happily. Now since we have known the reasons which cause patients’ bad feeling, we must help them to prevent these reasons.

2013年3月1日星期五

What Are the Risks of Having Kidney Transplant

Kidney Transplant maybe a good choice for kidney failure patients to get rid of dialysis; however, it is not an ideal method, there are also some risks for people to do kidney transplant. Now let's learn what the risks are?
1. Rejection
Rejection is the most common risk that having kidney transplant, to avoid severe rejection, patients need to have tests to make sure the donor kidney matches their tissue type and blood type. Also, after kidney transplant, patients need to take lots of anti-rejection tablets. These medicines usually are very expensive and also long term taking of these medicines damage patient's immune system and worsen their immunity. Therefore, kidney failure patients bad better not choose kidney transplant as long as there is other alternative treatment.
2. Severe infection
Infection occurs easy in kidney transplant. It is one of the dominant aggravating factors for kidney problem, so all the kidney problem patients no matter they have received kidney transplant or not, they need to prevent infection actively.
3. Bleeding
Bleeding is another risk factor happening easily in kidney transplant. Generally speaking, when bleeding condition occurs, transplanted kidney need to be taken out of kidney failure patient's body immediately; otherwise, patient's life will be threatened seriously.
4. Reaction to the anesthesia used for surgery.
If not managed properly, reaction to anesthesia will become a life-threatening condition.
5. Failure of the transplanted kidney
Donor kidney fails after kidney transplant is very common among kidney failure patients who have received kidney transplant. In some cases, the transplanted kidney only work several months or even shorter for the patients. For FSGS patients as well as patients whose kidney problem is secondary disease, they are especially easy to have kidney failure again after kidney transplant, because kidney transplant does not help them to remove the root causes for kidney failure.
These are the common risks of having kidney transplant, but they not all. During surgery, some other unforeseen risks may occur and learning these risks well is helpful for kidney failure patients to make preparation before kidney transplant.

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