What Is Renal Parenchymal Disease Definition
Renal parenchymal disease is very common, which usually cause severe damage in patient’s kidney. Because kidney is in charge of regulating our body’s internal metabolic balances, renal parenchymal disease can cause many severe health problems.
Renal parenchymal disease is the major kind of kidney disease, and it has various patterns. For patients with renal parenchymal disease, they should take measures according to their own conditions.
What is renal parenchymal disease?
Kidney can be divided into renal parenchyma and renal pelvis, and renal parenchyma consists of renal cortex and renal medulla, and these parts are in charge of kidney function.
When kidney damage appears in renal parenchyma, patients will be thought to have renal parenchymal disease. In fact, many factors can cause patients to have renal parenchymal disease, like diabetes, high blood pressure, autoimmune diseases, bacteria, virus, etc. Besides, genetic disorder can also be a cause of renal parenchymal disease, like PKD.
Kidney disease is divided into the acute kidney disease and chronic kidney disease, and renal parenchymal disease can also be divided into these two kinds.
How dangerous is it if patients have renal parenchymal disease?
As we have said, renal parenchymal disease can be divided into chronic kidney disease and acute kidney disease. These disease can reduce patient’s kidney function directly, which can cause patients to have many metabolic disorders in patient’s body.
For patients with acute kidney disease, their disease can cause severe damge to patient’s overall health in a short time, and it may cause death in this process. But acute kidney disease can be reversed if patients can accept proper treatment timely. For patients with chronic renal parenchymal disease, their kidney function will be damaged gradually by their disease. It usually needs a long time for patients to have kidney failure from they get this disease, but there is no cure for chronic kidney disease so far.
Thereby, renal parenchymal disease is very dangerous, and patients should take measures actively to deal with their condition. If you need any help, you can leave us a message about your details and problem. We can provide the guidance you need or do what we can to help you.
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