Renal atrophy common symptoms? What are those?
kidney, atrophy, cause, nephritis, Renal Failure
Kidney atrophy is the pathological change which refers to comparatively small or obviously shrunk kidney, and is diagnosed according to comparing with age, gender, height and weight. Long-term kidney disease results in damaged nephrons, which will cause kidney atrophy. The damage on kidney and kidney atrophy complement each other. Today let me talk about the causes of kidney atrophy. Ⅰ Common causes ♦Congenital renal dysplasia, a type of familial renal disease characterized by abnormal cellular differentiation of renal tissue is one cause of kidney atrophy. ♦The end-stage of Renal Failure also should be considered as another cause, including Chronic Glomerulonephritis, Alport Syndrome, acute renal rejection, hypertensive nephrosclerosis and acute tubular necrosis, etc. ♦We should know that if the patients have tubular nephritis, kidney atrophy will occur earlier than abnormal renal function, which is the characteristic of interstitial nephritis. Therefore, the patients with kidney disease have the pathological change of kidney atrophy, which does not indicate they have end-stage Renal Failure. ♦Chronic pyelonephritis often causes bilateral kidneys or one kidney. Ⅱ Other causes ♦ Renal tuberculosis...... See all of contents:http://www.renalfailuresite.com/causes/651.html
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