Chronic kidney disease

What is polycystic kidney disease? What are symptoms/signs? Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is caused by multiple fluid filled cysts that form within the kidney. It may affect one, or both kidneys. Symptoms include: loss of appetite, vomiting, constipation, lethargy, excessive thirst, and urination. Signs that a kitten, or cat is affected can include enlarged kidney, and fever. Severe cases in kittens may result in death from renal failure by the age of 8 weeks, or it could result in stillbirths…

Kaposi Sarcoma Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a tumor of endothelial cell origin commonly found in the Mediterranean, Jewish, Arabic and African populations. In patients on immunosuppression, human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection is reactivated in endothelial cells and conversion to spindle cells occurs.PMID: 16904612, PMID:17456614, PMID 15021843 The incidence of KS is markedly increased in patients with SOTRs (between 84 and 500 times more common) compared with the immune-competent…

Renal denervation involves application of radiofrequency waves to ablate renal nerves in order to reduce RSNA1*. The catheter is taken to the kidney via the femoral artery. There have been many different techniques and methods of ablating renal sympathetic nerves, with the simplicity trial proving to be the most effective and efficient4. During the symplicity HTN-1 trails, 153 patients over 19 different site around the world received renal sympathetic using the symplicity catheter2. The…

fluids within our body electrolytes are formed. However electrolytes are lost through urine, sweat, vomit and feces. To maintain balance within the body, there are mechanisms put in place. The kidney functions to control water and electrolytes concentrations. If the body intakes too much water, the kidneys begins to process urine so that the balance is maintained.…

Deep About the Raynaud Syndrome This type of disease is divided into two paramount categories: 1. Primary Raynaud: It is the lower stage of this syndrome. Generally, there is not any specific cause of this disease. It won't induce much discomfort, but still, the sufferers have to bear with the pain and the little uneasiness. Yes, take proper precautions against the cold and the stress. 2. Secondary Raynaud: This is the upper level of this disease. Mostly, it is linked with a specific medical…

Rhabdomyolysis Pathophysiology, Risk Factor, Manifestations, and treatment Rhabdomyolysis is potentially life-threatening disease that rapidly breaks down the muscle fibers that causes the release of intracellular contents into the extracellular space and bloodstream. Physical interruptions in the sarcolemma membrane, called delta lesions, suggest that the sarcolemma membrane is the route through which muscle constituents are released (McCance & Huether, 2014). Rhabdomyolysis is an increase in…

End-Stage Renal Disease and Technological Advancements End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is the fifth and final level of chronic kidney disease. According to The Kidney Foundation of Canada (n.d) by the fifth level, the kidneys have lost at least 85% of their ability to filter waste. Once the disease has progressed to this stage, action must be taken to increase the probability of patient survival. The kidneys are a vital organ that is needed for survival; similarly the weakness of the kidneys…

added to the kidney transplant list”, the National Kidney Foundation is not playing around. Statistically speaking that is a lot of people in need of a vital organ. The author Joanna Macay talks about the need for organ donations in her Article “Organ Sales will Save Lives”. Macay disputes her case briefly when stating her thesis in the first paragraph. She goes on to give her opinion that the selling of organs should be built to become legal. More specifically the selling of kidneys. She…

of organ sales. Mackay’s sub-claim shortly follows that 350,000 people suffer from the ending stage of the renal disease which causes the organs to stop functioning altogether. Kidney failure is one of the hardest disease to overcome successfully and there are not many alternatives possible treatments for this disease there are only two that we are aware of which are dialysis and kidney transplantation. She feels first that the main issue is that people who are in charge of making decisions…

exemplars. (Frow, 162-165) The rise of kidney trade has two reasons: the kidney survives outside the body and one of the body’s two kidneys deemed to be spare. (Frow, 166) Moreover, the reality of the extreme shortage in all countries of replacement organs for people desperately in need for them. ( Frow, 170) One can argue, what a chronic renal patient in need of one kidney and can have it would do? What if a poor person is welling to sell one of his two kidneys and solve his families problem…