Does Stage 4 Kidney Disease Patients Need to Do Fistula
Stage 4 kidney disease along with stage 5 is called end stage kidney disease. In these stages, some kidney replacement therapies are needed, and among them hemodialysis is used commonly. Fistula is considered as the best way to perform hemodialysis. Does patients with Stage 4 CKD need to do fistula?
Fistula is a vein near the surface of patients’ lower or upper arm, and it is connected to the artery through surgery. Most often, kidney patients are recommended to do a fistula about 6 months before undergoing hemodialysis, because the fistula needs time to develop. Otherwise, patients have to accept dialysis through a catheter inserted into their chest.
In stage 4 kidney disease, kidney function ranges from 15% to 29%. Low kidney function is more likely to make patients suffer from a series of problems. Then, some of these patients have to consider to do fistula, while some other patients don’t need. When should they do a fistula?
If patients’ illness condition is uncontrolled well, they should consider to do a fistula. This is because kidney disease in end stage usually aggravates quickly without effective treatments. To make sure the fistula has enough time to develop, these Stage 4 CKD patients should do fistula earlier.
On the contrary, if their illness condition is under control, they can delay the time of doing a fistula safely. To achieve this goal, Clear Blood Pollution Therapy and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy may be helpful.
Since patients’ illness condition changes from person to person, different patients need to take different treatments. Correct treatment can stop or at least slow down the progress of stage 4 kidney disease, while any mistake may worsen patients’ illness condition. Therefore, no matter which treatment you want to receive, make sure you have consulted your doctor or online doctor carefully.
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