Understanding renal atrophy -related information, to protect their kidneys

Renal atrophy and renal volume is based on the person's age , gender and body height and weight compared with each other , relatively small or significantly reduce an anomaly . Prolonged kidney disease, resulting in renal units , especially in glomerular damage, the entire kidney appeared smaller in size . Renal atrophy and renal function are complementary, when patients with renal atrophy when bound to have renal insufficiency or renal failure until - uremia. Therefore, improvement in the treatment of renal atrophy and renal disease control process is critical.
Renal atrophy is a pathological anatomy noun, ie renal atrophy , volume was significantly reduced, also known as end-stage kidney . Then the patient's glomerular renal atrophy , tubular ( ie renal units ) have most or all of the destruction , the physiological function of the kidneys have lost .
Typically patients with chronic renal failure kidney B -mode ultrasound examination , we can understand whether the kidneys with renal atrophy , and this screening method for patients with no damage. B- normal kidney is: left kidney diameter 8.1 to 11 cm, diameter 5.5 to 7 cm and a thickness of 4 to 5 cm ; kidney diameter 7.9 to 10.5 cm, diameter 5 5 ~ 7 cm , a thickness of 4 to 5 cm .
Renal atrophy occurs in patients with nausea and vomiting , fatigue , anemia. Continues to deteriorate uremia will occur. Renal atrophy patients will face leg edema, pruritus symptoms appeared , and also willing to be associated with swelling of the feet , and some patients with back pain will get worse , not sedentary . Kidney atrophy due to long-term kidney problems caused by overwork , suffering from renal atrophy , legs and feet have swollen phenomenon, and elevated blood pressure will be high with exacerbations. The body will gradually thin down.

Renal atrophy patients also may have hematuria , hematuria is the urinary excretion of abnormal increase in red blood cells , is likely to have severe disease of the urinary system signals . Centrifugation per high-power field in urine ≥ 3 red blood cells , or non- centrifuged urine more than 1 or 1 hour urinary red blood cell count over 100,000 , or 12-hour urine sediment counts more than 500,000 , are showing abnormal increase in red blood cells in the urine , is called hematuria. Light microscopy found only polycythemia , called microscopic hematuria ; severe watery appearance wash the meat or contain blood clots , called gross hematuria. That is visible , the urine was usually there 1mL per liter of urine or blood red when water samples were washed meat .