If A Kidney Infection Can Cause An Elevated Creatinine
If a kidney infection can cause an elevated creatinine? Patient with kidney infection may have this doubt. As we know, high creatinine often means kidney disease patient already has severe kidney damage, so it is necessary for patient who has kidney infection has a well understanding about this aspect.
Kidney diseases that are caused by kidney infection can be divided into the acute and the chronic. For patients who have kidney disease, their condition is able to be controlled in most cases. While for patients who have chronic kidney disease, their disease will progress gradually, which is very likely to cause patients to have kidney failure.
On the other hand, elevated creatinine can be caused by many reasons, but most cases will not exist for a long time, and that is not very severe either. But in one condition, elevated creatinine indicates a very severe condition, and that is when it is caused by kidney failure, which can exist persistently.
For patient with kidney infection, if he has acute kidney disease, he may have elevated creatine. But this condition can be improved if patient’s disease is treated. While for patient who has chronic kidney disease, he may not have obvious elevated creatinine in the early stage of his disease. While if patient’s disease has not been well controlled, his disease will progress, and when patient has severe kidney failure, elevated creatinine will appear.
Besides, for patients who have chronic kidney disease and whose kidney disease is caused by kidney infection, more than half of them have had acute kidney disease.
Thereby, a kidney infection may not cause patient to have persist elevated creatinine,which means severe kidney damage, but kidney infection can cause it.
While for patients with kidney infection, they should take measures to deal with their condition positively, so as to avoid getting chronic kidney disease, which is very likely to cause patient to have kidney failure.
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