Polycystic kidney disease

huge load on the health care system cost wise. Because this problem is so common and so significant in routine clinical practice, a high level of diagnostic accuracy is essential. The urinary tract infection (UTI) which involves urethra, bladder or kidneys can be infected, the majority of UTI are not serious and can be treated by antibiotics but if not treated properly can end up life treating. In this essay, we will be looking into the microorganism that cause the infection, sign and symptoms…

The speaker for laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment was Denise Geiger, PhD, DLM (ASCP).The objective is to describe the laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment, gain insight on how new biomarkers can improve clinical decisions and provide high value patient outcomes, and examine clinical research and applications of novel biomarkers for the assessment of AKI. The speaker was very detailed about this topic, but I only had what I can recall. I decided to go to…

system. This system is consisted of the skin, lungs,the kidneys, and all their helper organs. The main organ of this system are the kidneys. They are located on the right and left side of your spinal column. A tube called the ureter leaves each kidney. The ureter carries urine to the urinary bladder, a sac like organ where…

An increasing body of experimental evidence suggests that lung/kidney interactions are involved both in AKI-associated acute lung injury (ALI) and renal consequences of acute respiratory failure. Positive pressure ventilation, changes in PaCO2 and PaO2 levels along with systemic inflammation participate in the renal response to acute respiratory failure. Positive pressure ventilation may modify venous return, cardiac after-load and may decrease cardiac output along with decreased renal blood…

1. In SIADH, high ADH levels interfere with renal free water clearance, leading to hyponatremia and hypoosmolality. SIADH secretion is associated with certain forms of cancer, apparently because of ectopic secretion of ADH by tumor cells. (McCance & Huether, 2014). SIADH makes it difficult for your body to get rid of excess water. This causes a buildup of fluids as well as abnormally low sodium levels, a condition known as hyponatremia. In addition to making it harder for your body to release…

Organ donation is a very good thing in my opinion. Obviously from the stories that this website gives us are very powerful. A donation changed many people’s lives, like the veteran, or Brooklyn or anyone who has gotten a donor. I’m sure that their lives have changed for the better and that they are very appreciative of the donors. Obviously a lot of people have donated, according to the video, the US had more than 30,000 donors. Keep in mind that it has never been over 30,000 before so it is a…

empathy. A personal experience that I have had, and am having, concerns my father, and end-stage renal disease. My father received a kidney transplant in the late 1980’s due to end-stage renal disease. The transplant operation was successful and his kidney function was stable for decades with the support of anti-rejection medications, and the watch of a nephrologist. In 2015, my father's kidney function began to gradually decrease. An increased level of creatinine was noticed, nothing of high…

Urinalysis is mostly a labor process used to observe urine at a microscopic level (Ben-Ezra, 1998). In the urinalysis, one of the experiments conducted was observing the physical characteristics of the urine sample. The physical characteristics included the color, transparency, odor, and pH level. Observing and determining the color, transparency, odor, and pH of urine can tell the person’s diet and possibly if there might be a bodily issue going on (Gutierrez, 2014). For the first physical…

blood in our body is filtered through the kidneys 400 times every single day. 2. The kidneys are capable of cleaning 1 million gallons of water in an entire lifetime. 3. If a kidney fails, and needs to be removed, the remaining kidney can increase by 50% in size in order to compensate for the body's need to filter out wastes in the blood. I found these specific facts interesting because filtration plays a very important role in homeostasis. Without the kidneys, the blood would contain…

According to Utilitarian theory, the action sell a kidney is morally right if the consequences generate the maximum of good for the greatest number. A utilitarian may analyze that selling organ for a financial incentive as an acceptable act, since several people would benefit from it. For example, Ruth Sparrow would be able to pay her medical bills, the recipient would receive a kidney thus eliminating the need for dialysis, and those under the recipient on the transplant waiting list would move…