Krishan B Kumar's Articles in Kidney Health Show All|Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest Things To Know About Acute Renal (Kidney) Failure - ARF ARF is a condition when both kidneys almost suddenly fail to perform their functions. The failure occurs within a few hours/ days. This may result from an acute disease of the kidneys, as a result of allergic manifestation operating gravely on the kidneys, i.e. acute GN, described earlier. Besides, sometimes blood pressure may be so acutely elevated, that it may knock down both the kidneys, resulting in their sudden/ acute failure. Further, an acute infection of the kidneys (... Signs, Symptoms And Treatments Of Acute Renal (Kidney) Failure - ARF The clinical picture depends upon underlying causes, like acute GN (allergic disorder of kidneys), sudden acute rise in blood pressure (malignant hypertension), or it may be a case of acute infection of the kidneys (pyelonephritis), or an advanced case of dehydration (due to repeated vomiting, diarrhoea, etc.), or due to loss of blood as a result of sudden bleeding, or due to marked hypotension, i.e. fall in blood pressure in a case of heart attack, or acute kidney failure ma... Chronic Renal (Kidney) Failure & Your Kidneys As a result of slow or chronic involvement of both the kidneys, the size of the kidneys reduces, i.e. they become small in size. As the disease progresses, they become more and more small. An ultrasonographic examination of the kidneys can give a fair idea of the progress of the disease, by measuring the size of the kidneys. However, in acute renal failure (ARF), discussed in the earlier topic, the size of the kidneys remains almost their normal size, since the condition has ... Complications / Symptomatology Of Chronic Renal (Kidney) Failure (CRF) As the disease advances, various systems/organs of the body start deteriorating due to the collection of poisons/toxins in the body, which the diseased kidneys cannot excrete fully. The patient complains of marked loss of appetite, nausea and recurrent vomiting (especially in the morning). These are the early symptoms, and the patient may report only with these vague complaints, and at such a stage, it is only the clinician who can clinch the diagnosis, provided the patien... Total Prevention Of Chronic Renal (Kidney) Failure - CRF Kidneys can be prevented from any damage, provided one is careful to prevent all those diseases, at least the common ones, which harm the kidneys. Since CRF usually occurs as a result of undetected/uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, GN, UTI, especially the cases where there is an obstruction in the urinary tract, due to enlarged prostate, urinary stones, etc., all these predisposing factors/diseases have to be avoided/ prevented right from the beginning/ early age, s... How Kidneys Are Damaged And Cause 'Hidden' Kidney Failure Kidneys are one of the most vital organs of the body, and damage to them must be prevented by all means. Survival is threatened when kidneys are badly damaged in a disease, and their function impaired severely. Hence, the infection must be controlled/ eradicated immediately with proper antibiotics,otherwise the kidneys will be damaged as a result of a long-standing/ recurrent infection, called chronic pyelonephritis. The situation becomes grim when an attack of acute pyelo... Things To Know About Urinary Stones The usual stones in the urinary tract consist of calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate (or combined with ammonio-magnesium phosphate), or uric acid, etc. However, the stones may occur as a combination of these constituents, called 'mixed stones'. What are the symptoms of urinary stones? Stone/s in the urinary tract may remain symptom less for long, and may be detected by routine X-rays. Stones which are stagnant/motionless in any part of the urinary tract do not show sym...

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