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CKD stage 5 in the setting of longstanding hypertension, possible polycystic kidney disease, BPH, obesity, who presents for evaluation for candidacy for a kidney transplant. The patient has been evaluated recently at Shands Hospital for kidney transplant, but his evaluation was not completed due to obesity and possible cardiac problems. Renal History: The patient has longstanding history of chronic kidney disease in the setting of longstanding uncontrolled hypertension. He has never had a…

Chronic Renal Disease: J.H. and ESRD J. H. is a 55-year-old African American male who presented himself to the Emergency Department with a progressively worsening headache. He had a blood pressure (BP) of 233/134, with complaints of regular abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting and shortness of breath with exertion. Alert and oriented, he stated non-compliance with his BP medications and refusal to do dialysis since his initial diagnosis. Pathophysiology ESRD is the fifth and final stage…

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…

“Every 14 minutes someone is 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…

wasted by the legalization of the ban 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…

In today 's society, it is better to be ethical than a savior to someone. It has deemed that one should be concerned about their convalescence and ignore solutions that could put an end to many deaths around the world. The epitome of organ donations is to provide organs to those who are in need to spare the life of another compatriot. However, the ratio of organ donation provided verse organs that have given to required patients has always been vastly disproportionate. Organ selling which is at…

Pathophysiology for chronic kidney failure • Chronic kidney failure, also previously known as chronic kidney disease, is a nonreversible disease. The kidney may lose up to 80% of its nephrons before any signs and symptoms may appear. The nephron is the smallest part of the kidney and its job is to filter blood. The loss of nephrons can come from various ways ranging from diabetes, hypertension, urinary tract obstruction, chronic glomerular disease and chronic infection. Diabetes causes loss…

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 illness. This article conducted an comparison…

ignored because not many people recognize the symptoms. Many people do not realize how vital their kidneys are in everyday life. Chronic Kidney Disease is a serious condition that can be life threatening. CKD can result in kidney failure. It is a progressive condition that can be slowed by a healthy lifestyle. CKD has many symptoms, and it has a few treatments. Kidney disease is a serious condition that has various symptoms, few treatments, and several stages that many people overlook. Kidneys…

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 and help another person to live longer? If giving up one kidney would seriously…