What is kidney shrinkage?
Kidney shrinkage (atrophic kidney or kidney shrinking) refers to the shrinkage in the size of one or both kidneys. Kidney size can reflect kidney function: larger or smaller than the normal kidney size indicates the dysfunction of kidney. When kidney begins to shrink, the disease may develop into renal insufficiency or uremia. In early stage, kidney shrinkage is asymptomatic. Only patients’ kidney function is below 50%, can patients feel some symptoms.
What are the causes of kidney shrinkage?
There are three common causes of kidney shrinkage: congenital renal dysplasia, end stage kidney disease and chronic pyelonephritis.
1.Congenital renal dysplasia. Due to obstacles of blood supply in embryonic period or other reasons, renal tissue can’t develop sufficiently. Hypogenetic kidney is less than 50% of the normal kidney size.
2.End stage kidney disease. When the disease develops into end stage kidney disease, serum creatinine and urea nitrogen usually reach a high level. Nephrons, the functional tissues of kidney, suffer damage. Kidney will shrink.
3.Chronic pyelonephritis. Pyelonephritis is due to obstruction of the urinary tract, which can cause elevated pressure on veins, arteries and tissues. The condition can cause severely damage to patients’ nephrons. Kidney will suffer damage and begin to shrink over time.
How to treat kidney shrinkage?
1. Control the diets and behaviors in daily life to prevent further kidney damage. And they are beneficial for the kidney to get recovered.
2. Clear up all the toxins gathered in the body. For an example, the patients can do Toxin-Removing Therapy to reach this purpose so as to stop the kidney damage and promote the kidney recovery.
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