Polycystic kidney disease

1. Medical Conditions/Diagnosis: Pa Dx include: Kidney failure, CRF, Diabetes, Edema, Anemia, and HTN. The reported effects includes: severe weakness, swelling and fluid retention in her extremities and in her abdomen. Pa receives ESRD - dialysis 3 days a week. Pa reports that she is no longer on the kidney transplant list due to risk factors associated with age. Pa has an hx of R great toe amputation in 5/5/2005 d/t osteomyelitis. Hx of L little toe amputation in October 2011 d/t…

Kidney stones, also known as renal calculi, are essentially smaller sized deposits of calcium which can be found in the nephrons and vary in size and shape. The stones have the opportunity to increase and travel down into the urinary tract, which can cause extreme pain throughout the body. Stones occur when salts in the urine form into a solid crystal. They can potentially block the flow of urine in the body and cause infection, kidney damage, or could lead to kidney failure. A sudden change or…

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…

used to look for problems with your kidneys. The kidneys are the organs that filter your blood and keep it clean. They move waste out of your blood and into your urine so it can be removed from your body. In this procedure, a small amount of radioactive material (tracer) is injected into your blood. The tracer will travel through your bloodstream and reach your kidneys. A scanner with a camera that detects the radioactive tracer is used to examine the kidneys. The tracer makes it easier for…

for Chinese Patient With Renal Failure Diagnosis: Renal failure is the slow digression of the kidneys in the body system. The disease can either be acute, or become chronic, which is more common among the elderly. Judith Hopfer, April Hazard Vallerand, and Cynthia A. Sanoski describe in Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses how this occurs. This can result from injury or by the aging process where the kidneys begin to shut down. (Hopfer, Vallerand, Sanoski, 496). Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances…

Acute pancreatitis is a sudden, but reversible inflammatory process of the pancreas. The most common cause of pancreatitis is alcohol in western countries and gallstone in eastern countries. Approximately 80% patients have mild pancreatitis and 20% of patients have severe pancreatitis. About 15-25% of acute pancreatitis develops into severe pancreatitis. Mild pancreatitis has mortality rate less 1% (1, 2) where as the mortality rate of severe pancreatitis varies from (10-30) % depending upon…

size or shape, it prevents the free flow of urine and blocks the flow of urine or damages the kidney or other part of the urinary stone. i) Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) (Attasit et al., 2009) Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the most widely used procedure for the treatment of kidney stones. ESWL acts as an alternative approach to disintegrate stones developed in the kidney and in the upper urinary tract. ESWL uses high pressure shock waves that are generated by an…

End Stage Renal Disease occurs when the kidneys are no longer able to meet patient demands on a daily basis. The decline into End Stage Renal Disease almost always follows Chronic Kidney Disease, in which the kidneys slowly decline over a ten to twenty year period. Two of the most common causes of Chronic Kidney Disease are hypertension and Diabetes, both of which are prevalent in the United States, and present in this patient. Unfortunately, without dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant,…

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…

In 1943 the kidney dialysis machine was made to help with people who have Non Working kidneys, overdose, and can help prevent kidney failure. Depending on why the person is on the machine will determine how long they will be on it, the most you could be on the machine is five to ten years. The training for the machine can take up to six weeks by itself and you have to do treatment four to seven per week. Therefore machine itself is the size of a microwave and has to be plugged In at all…