Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a condition that affects the function of the kidneys, and that may progress over time to kidney failure. When the kidneys fail, dialysis or a kidney transplant is needed to support life and people can live for decades with dialysis and/or kidney transplants. Many diseases can cause CKD. The most common are diabetes and high blood pressure.

Kidney disease does not have to happen to people with diabetes good blood pressure and blood sugar control can help prevent it. Tight control can have big payoffs in reducing the risk for kidney disease.

Successful kidney patients say you should remember three things:

Attitude :- You can live a good life with kidney disease.

Answers:- You need to educate yourself so you can stay as healthy as possible.

Action:-You and your doctor need to agree on what you should and should not

do, and then you need to follow the list as closely as you can.

Symptoms of Kidney Disease

1)Changes in urination:- Kidneys make urine, so when the kidneys are failing, the urine may

change.

2) Swelling in the legs, ankles, feet, face, and/or hands.

3) Fatigue Healthy kidneys make a hormone called erythropoietin that tells your body to make

oxygen-carrying red blood cells. As the kidneys fail, they make less erythropoietin. With fewer red blood cells to carry oxygen, your muscles and brain become tired very quickly. This condition is called anemia, and it can be treated.

4) Skin rash/itching Kidneys remove wastes from the bloodstream. When the kidneys fail,

the build-up of wastes in your blood can cause severe itching.

5) Metallic taste in mouth/ammonia breath.

6)Nausea and vomiting

7) Shortness of breath

8) Feeling cold

9) Trouble concentrating, dizziness

10)Leg/flank pain

Kidney Stone

Kidney stones, also called renal calculi, are one of the most common disorders of the urinary tract. They are hard rock-like crystals which form when certain chemicals in the urine aggregate and then gradually increase in size. Normal urine contains chemicals called stone inhibitors which reduce this crystal formation.

A kidney stone is a common disorder of the urinary tract that affects 10% of the population at one point or another. A slightly smaller percentage of men than women are affected.

The pain can be quite severe, depending on the size of the stone and the number of stones that are involved. Many people discover that they have a kidney stone from blood in their urine.

Kidney stones is also clinically known as renal stone disease. There is a small genetic predisposition to developing this disease. It most often occurs in those who are middle aged, but it can occur at any time.

There are four major types of stones:

• Stones formed from calcium combined with oxalate or phosphate - the most common types

• Uric acid stones

• Stones caused by urine infection

• Cystine stones which are rare and hereditary

Causes kidney stones

A number of different factors can contribute to stone formation:

• Excess calcium, phosphate, oxalate and uric acid in the urine

• Insufficient amounts of stone inhibitors in the urine

• Low fluid intake resulting in concentrated urine and a higher probability of crystal formation

• Recurrent urine infections:

• Rare inherited conditions

Kidney transplantation

Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for the majority of patients with ESRD and is associated with improved survival and quality of life compared with patients who remain on the waiting list.

Kidney transplantation is one of the major success stories of the 20th century by virtually doubling the chance of survival for all patients independent of age, gender, underlying diagnoses, race, or ethnicity.One-year graft survival now exceeds 90% for the majority of transplant programs, and rejection rates have dropped to 20% as a result of improved immunosuppressive strategies, surgical techniques, and improved posttransplantation care. Despite these dramatic successes in the past 50 years, important long-term problems persist, namely racial and ethnic disparities, the complications of longterm immunosuppression, and chronic allograft nephropathy.

• Remove the perirenal fat.

• The renal fat should be kept in place around the hilum and the ureter.

• Check for the absence of renal tumours.

• Rinse the kidney with +4°C serum via the renal artery.

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