Causes And Treatment For Atrophy Kidney

Atrophy kidney means that the kidney is relatively smaller or significantly shrunk that it should be by taking into account age, gender, height, weight. Long term kidney disease can damaged renal tissues especially the renal parenchyma. This can cause the kidneys to be atrophic and kidney functions will be affected when renal functioning tissues are damaged.

There can be left kidney atrophy, right kidney atrophy or bilateral kidney atrophy. There are several causes of atrophy kidney.

Congenital renal hypoplasia. Congenital factors should be first ruled out in case of kidney atrophy.

End stage renal disease (ESRD). It is also known as renal failure and it can be caused by acute and chronic glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephrosclerosis, organ rejection after kidney transplantation, renal cortical necrosis, Alport syndrome, acute renal tubular necrosis, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, etc.

Chronic nephropyelitis. It is another important cause of renal atrophy. It can cause unilateral or bilateral renal atrophy.

Other possible causes of renal atrophy include nephrotuberculosis, renal artery stenosis, etc.

Strictly speaking, atrophy kidney is not easy to be cured. If it is caused by other disease and there is just minor damages of kidney functions, it can be controlled and relieved by completely treating the primary disease and reversing renal damages.

Treatment for atrophy kidney should aim at blocking renal fibrosis, prevent further atrophy, repair damaged renal tissues and recovery kidney functions. In this regard, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a good choice.

Step one

Prevent further proliferation of mesangial cells, repair damaged glomerular basement membrane and recover normal renal filtration.

Step two

Repair charge barrier of the basement membrane so as to reduce protein leakage and improve the discharging of metabolic wastes and toxins.

Step three

Promote blood circulation and improve metabolism. Repair DNA of the damaged renal intrinsic cells so as to repair and regenerate renal tissues. When renal structures are rebuild, renal functions will be gradually recovered.