Polycystic kidney disease

with a 63 year old female who has end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and has currently been on dialysis for the past two years. However, ESRD is not a diagnosis but a name of a Medicare program (Porth & Matfin, 2009) The definition of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for a patient is irreversible kidney damage and/or glomerular filtration rate (GFR) less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m^2 for a minimal three months (Porth & Matfin, 2009). Those patient with kidney failure has either GFR less than 15 ml/min/1.73…

material from the blood. When the kidney loses the ability to filter, the body fluids can rise in dangerous levels. Acute renal failure can be reversible as long as it is treated on time. Medication and other treatments can be essential to stop the progress of this disease. If this is not treated on time, it can progress to an end stage and eventually death. Acute renal failure is one of the leading causes of death in US. “A sudden, serious drop in blood flow to the kidney. Heavy blood loss,…

Many of us do not realize how important our kidneys are until we lose the function of going to the bathroom. Our body takes in a number of toxins and fluids that we should excrete. Chronic real failure is better known as chronic kidney failure and this is where our kidneys are no longer function properly. Your kidneys filter the blood inside you body. The blood contains many toxins and excretes these toxins though urine, if our kidneys do not work eventually our electrolyte levels increase…

General Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a non-communicable disease on the rise, effecting one in nine adults in the U.S. (Nelms, Sucher, Lacey, & Roth, 2010). This trend has catapulted CKD to epidemic proportions. The disease is characterized by the progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function brought on predominantly by uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes mellitus, leaving millions at risk for developing the disease. There are five stages of CKD and they are assessed…

Abstract The kidneys keep up ordinary homeostasis by separating and discharging metabolic waste items, by directing acid–base offset, and by directing pulse and liquid volume [4]. Abatement in renal capacity is brought about by numerous issues; among these are diabetes mellitus and hypertension. At present, analysis of renal brokenness is in view of such estimations as creatinine, urea, and electrolytes, and additionally on creatinine freedom. These circuitous estimations have low affectability…

Clinical Feature Polymyositis is one of a cluster of muscle diseases recognized as the inflammatory myopathies, which are categorized by chronic muscle inflammation convoyed by muscle weakness. Polymyositis is defined as is an uncommon connective tissue ailment. It is a kind of inflammatory myopathy, which is categorized by muscle swelling and weakness. The most obvious characteristic of polymyositis is feebleness of the skeletal muscles, which control movement. Causes To date, no reason of…

help Clarice and her family deal with the situation? The associated stress the doctor was talking about is that Clarice finds out her kidneys are severely damaged for poorly managed diabetes, she also finds out she is in the last stage of end stage renal failure. Another stress is that renal dialysis is needed to prolong life after diagnosis of ESRD. Kidney transplant is also mentioned as a treatment option for Clarice condition, and her families can live with this for a long time. Also, a…

performing the first ever kidney transplant, and he died at the age of 93. Since then education and technology has advanced and now organ transplants can be done more safely and efficiently. Over the course of the last century, organ transplants has overcome many technical limitations to become what it is today. Jaboulay was the first to try this in 1906, he tried to treat two patients that had developed renal failure he transplanted a goat kidney into one and a pig kidney into the other. Both…

Fibrosis, and many other genetic diseases. Using the CRISPR technology in drug therapy has scientists very excited. While drugs with this gene-editing technology are many years away, scientists are excited about the possibility of being able to go right to the root cause of a disease and repair a broken or mutated gene. Drugs based on the CRISPR-Cas9 combination have the ability to “complement the pills and biotech drugs that are currently available, targeting diseases that aren’t well…

2. The atomic bomb was also invented by several scientists and it killed over 300,000 people in Japanese cities. Besides that a man named Willen Johan Kolff decided on creating a machine that could save many peoples life, he created the first ever kidney…