Can kidney shrinkage be cured?

In recent years, the incidence of renal atrophy is very high, which not only causes great harm to our bodies, but also affects our physical health. So can renal atrophy be cured? Renal atrophy can be cured. It is a manifestation of the progression of renal insufficiency in patients. As the disease progresses, renal atrophy becomes more and more serious. The key to treating renal atrophy lies in the timing and method of treatment. Whether we can seize the favorable opportunity and block the deterioration chain in the process of fibrosis formation is the key to determining the success or failure of treatment.

1. Can kidney atrophy be restored?

Renal atrophy can be restored. You must quit smoking and drinking, and also pay attention to rest. If unilateral kidney atrophy occurs, surgical resection may be considered.

The increase in creatinine can be solved by dialysis, controlling the intake of protein food, etc.

To solve the problem of how to treat renal atrophy, it is necessary to explore the fundamental causes of renal atrophy. The kidneys are invaded by the outside world, and inflammatory reactions occur and cell phenotype transformation leads to the gradual occurrence and progression of renal fibrosis, which damages the renal parenchyma and shrinks the kidneys. The treatment of renal atrophy should also focus on how to prevent renal fibrosis. The establishment of this view coincides with the spirit of the annual kidney disease meeting.

2. Treatment focus of renal atrophy

The specific principle of treatment is: to promote the apoptosis of myofibroblasts and the phagocytosis of immune complexes; to reduce the synthesis of ECM and increase its degradation, the damaged kidney tissue may be partially repaired, and the renal function can be gradually restored. The apoptosis of myofibroblasts and immune complexes blocks their continued synthesis and secretion of ECM, increases the production of degradative enzymes in the kidneys, enhances their degradation activity on ECM, reduces the damage of ECM to kidney tissue, and gradually reverses the damaged kidney function. Can kidney atrophy be restored?

3. Folk remedies for kidney atrophy

Drink a bowl of jujube millet porridge and ginger, brown sugar and egg soup before 6-8 am every day. You should ensure that you eat hot, full and good meals three times a day. If the three meals are not reasonable, health will stay away from you. Meet the food "pyramid structure", that is, 50% cereal foods, 30% fresh seasonal vegetables, 15% fish, meat, and eggs, and 5% oil foods. Keep a cheerful mood and do proper exercise. Keep tapping the acupoints on the gallbladder meridian every day. When standing at attention, use the middle finger of your hand; 10 minutes.

Symptom differentiation and treatment is the characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine, which means that different treatment methods are selected according to the individual conditions of the patients. If the patient has symptoms such as dull pain and bloating in the upper abdomen, preference for warmth and pressure, fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal distension after eating, easy diarrhea, pale tongue, tooth marks on the edges of the tongue, thin white tongue coating, and thin pulse, it is judged as spleen and stomach deficiency syndrome, and the method of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen can be adopted for treatment. If the patient experiences upper abdominal distension and pain (including the flanks), chest tightness, belching, sighing, the onset and aggravation of symptoms are significantly related to emotions, a thin white tongue coating, a wiry pulse, etc., then it is judged as liver-stomach disharmony syndrome and can be treated by methods of soothing the liver and harmonizing the stomach.

The clinical features of renal atrophy are that compensatory enlargement of the contralateral kidney is uncommon, but renal blood flow is mostly enhanced.

Unilateral renal atrophy itself does not cause hypertension. For example, congenital renal dysplasia, renal autotomy, renal tuberculosis, and chronic pyelonephritis are not accompanied by hypertension. However, renal artery stenosis activates the renin-angiotensin-steroid system, which increases plasma renin levels and commonly causes hypertension.

It is uncommon for renal artery stenosis to be accompanied by decreased or absent dorsalis pedis artery pulses in the affected limb. Can kidney atrophy be restored?

After DSA dilatation of renal artery stenosis, the blood flow of the atrophic kidney increased significantly, and the kidney became significantly larger than before, indicating that some atrophic kidneys are reversible.

The renal artery is severely narrowed and blood flow cannot be detected, but the kidney maintains a good blood supply through collateral circulation, which prevents the diseased kidney from severely atrophying.

On the isotope renal nephrography, the diseased kidney develops delayed, excretion slows down, and abnormal excretion function appears first. Renal blood flow is significantly reduced or absent.