Chronic kidney disease

Together Let’s Fight 4 Your Life is a support group for Kidney Dialysis patients. Within the support group the members will love, support and encourage one another to remain positive and keep faith during trying times. This support group is sponsored by Frenisus Kidney Care to educate patients along with support on self-care. Let’s Fight 4 Your Life is an evidence based support that will focus on interventions that is highly recommended for chronic renal failure patients. It will focus on…

Hopkins Day 9 keyboarding assignment Glomerulonephritis is the inflammation of the glomeruli located in the kidneys. This inflammation causes to protein and other substances to leak into the urine from the blood. As the inflammation continues the kidneys may become less effective and cannot filter out waste products, such as water and salt from the blood. This can eventually lead to kidney failure. When this occurs, waste can accumulate in high levels in the blood and the will then retain salt…

which was up by 57%. There are five stages of Chronic Kidney disease, and each stage has a specific characteristic which is defined by the glomerular filtrations rate. The fifth and final stage is End-Stage Renal Failure which is when the kidney is functioning at a GFR of less than 15%. According to the United States Renal Data System Annual Report more than 615,000 American’s are being treated for kidney failure which is also known as End Stage Renal Disease, more than 430,000 Americans are…

history of chronic kidney disease; stage II, which causes impaired kidney function. This system is directly affected by the patient’s poor cardiac function. As we know, renal failure leads to fluid retention and electrolyte issues. As a patient with cardiac dysfunction, this causes increased stress on the heart. If the heart is already failing, or improperly functioning, further stress on the heart from fluid retention can lead to increased afterload and preload. Chronic kidney disease causes…

Chronic Renal Failure As stated in this post chronic renal failure is a “slow progressive, irreversible loss in kidney function” (Silvestri, 2011). Chronic renal failure causes damages to all the major organs in the body. People affected by this disease usually have to get new kidneys from a donor or go to dialysis to be able to function. Many factors can cause the kidneys to shut down. Diabetes mellitus is considered one of the leading causes of renal failure. Other problems like hypertension,…

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…

Survival Rate of Patients Over 70 The kidney serves many important functions of the body. It helps filter toxins out of the blood, and regulate blood pressure. With chronic renal failure the kidney stops performing its normal functions. Chronic renal failure occurs over a long period of time and has irreversible damage. The main treatment for these patients has always been dialysis. With new knowledge and information about chronic renal failure, researchers try to find better ways to treat this…

demand for kidney transplants is snowballing day by day. Because of a scarcity of organ donors to meet this requisite, stem cell treatment for kidney failure materialize as a hope to cure thousands of patients as a substitute treatment. How does a kidney failure occur? Our kidneys are designed to inhibit toxins build up in our bodies. Kidneys help confiscate lots of waste, cleaning our bodies from within so that no detrimental toxins and compounds destroy our vital organs. Our kidneys also…

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY – Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is currently recognized as the preferred nomenclature for the clinical disorder formerly called Acute Renal Failure(ARF).This transition in terminology was meant to emphasize that the spectrum of the disease is much broader than a subset of patients who experience failure and require dialysis support .This nomenclature explains that renal failure occur as a continuum 1. AKIN recently defined AKI as “ functional or structural abnormalities or…

estimated that there are over 1.7 million people worldwide suffering from End Stage Renal Disease (Bendorf, 2013). America is no stranger to this epidemic. Each year, more and more people are being diagnosed and added to the transplant list. Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease and the best treatment, a kidney transplant, is difficult to come by. Mostly because we cannot keep up with the demand for kidney transplants in this nation. There are many possible solutions on how to best…