What is chronic kidney disease?

Chronic Kidney Diseases(CKD) refers to the chronic renal damage or the severe decline of GFR in more than 3 months.In early stage,the patients may not feel the obvious uncomfortable,which is the reason why many patients are diagnosed with renal failure when they are feel not well.

Diagnosis

The renal damage or the renal dysfunction is mainly characterized by 2 conditions.One is the abnormal blood,urine or the imageological examination.The other is the reducing GFR that is less than 60ml/(min•1.73m2) for more three months.


The Stage of CKD

According to the GFR,CKD can be divided into 5 stages.

stage description GFR ml/min/1.73m2

Ⅰ slight renal damage with the normal or increased GFR ≥90

Ⅱ renal damage with the slight decreased GFR 60~89

Ⅲ moderate decline of GFR 30~59

Ⅳ severe reduced GFR 15~29

Ⅴ ESRD <15

PS.GFR means the the glomerular filtration rate that is a index of renal function.

Test

Some routine tests are common to patients,like Blood Test,Creatinine,etc.Besides,our hospital provides other special tests for patients:

--Lymphocyte Subsets

--Urine Protein Electrophoresis 

--Autoantibody Tests

--Toxins in Blood Serum

--Kidney Damage Tests

--Emergency Tests

--Diagnosis of Hematuria Position

--Lab Tests for Complement

Cause

The mainly cause of CKD are high blood pressure and diabetes.There are other reasons also may lead to or worsen the damage to kidneys,such as infection,poor external environment and overwork,etc.The different disease condition depends on the different patients'habitus.If you want to know more about your disease condition,you can contact live doctor.

Prognosis 

Prognosis of CKD is various,due to the chronicity and complexity of thus disease.Besides,some severe complications may worsen the disease,such as high blood pressure,CVD,and so on.It is necessary to take the timely and effective treatments to control the disease condition and relieve the symptoms as far as possible.Besides the drug therapy,dialysis therapy are also important to patients.

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