What Causes the Atrophy of Kidney?

Atrophy of kidney means that your kidney is relatively smaller or obviously shrinks. The size of kidneys is up to age, sex, height and weight of the person. Long-term kidney disease will do damage to the kidney units. As the necrosis and hardening of kidney units, the kidneys will become smaller in size. As the kidneys atrophies, the renal function declines as well. When the patients' kidneys become smaller, the disease has already or inevitable developed into Renal Failure or Uremia. Therefore, in order to treat kidney disease, to improve and control atrophy of the kidneys is very important.

What Causes the Atrophy of Kidney?

What causes the atrophy of kidney?
Atrophy of kidney can happen to single or bilateral kidneys. In general, there are several factors which can cause the atrophy of kidney. When notice your kidneys is smaller, first you need to consider whether it is due to congenital renal dysplasia. Then you need to consider whether you are suffering from kidney disease or your disease has developed into end stage, such as Renal Insufficiency, Uremia, Acute Glomerular Disease, Diabetic Nephrosclerosis, rejection reaction of kidney transplant, Chronic Glomerulonephritis, renal cortical necrosis, Alport Syndrome, acute renal tubular necrosis, Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis etc.
Atrophy of bilateral kidneys is caused when various chronic kidney diseases develop into Renal Failure or Uremia stage: Serum Creatinine and BUN are elevated a lot, renal parenchyma is damaged greatly, then the kidneys will become smaller. Kidney diseases are a kind of latent disease. Usually there are no symptoms until GFR is lower than 50% (Kidneys have been damaged a lot.). Therefore, when we discover the kidneys become smaller, our kidneys have been damaged a lot and at this time we should positively find the cause so as to get effective treatment. Besides, atrophy of kidneys may cause by nephrophthisis (single kidney is shrunk and the other is with hydronephrosis or enlarged.), renal arteriostenosis or congenital renal dysplasia.
Atrophy of single kidney is common. Patients usually go to see a doctor because of high blood pressure, soreness of waist or other symptoms. It can be diagnosed by a B ultrasound, KUB or IVP. In this situation, except the primary symptoms, there are no obvious blood urine and proteinuria, and the renal function is normal. If kidney disease is caused by urinary tract infection, urinary tract obstruction or some medicine, renal function can decline sharply and after several years, the kidneys may be shrunk.
Generally speaking, the atrophy of kidneys is closely related to the long term kidney disease. Therefore, smaller size of kidneys can be an indicator of kidney disease. In order to prevent the kidneys from further atrophying, timely and effective treatment should be taken. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, we adopt Micro-Chinese Medicine to treatment kidney disease. Micro-Chinese Medcine can block the process of renal fibrosis, repair the damaged renal instrinsic cells and renal function, rebuid the normal kidney structure. At the same time, the size of the kidneys won't become smaller any more. Then Stem Cell Transplant is carried out to generate new renal intrinsic cells so as to supplement the necrotic renal intrinsic cells and improve the renal function.