No matter how terrified «Polycystic kidney», despair to a person with this ailment should not. With polycystic kidney can live a full life. After all, modern medicine owns some successful techniques for the treatment of kidney polycystic. One of them - dialysis or procedure «Artificial kidney».
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When worn kidneys need substitution
Share slag or what dialysis
Nephrologists were lucky more than other doctors. Artificial kidney, though imperfect, nevertheless it is the only body that doctors learned to replace for dozen years.
So what is dialysis and what is its procedure? The patient is connected to the device to the vessels on the hand with the help of a needle, through which blood is taken and returned back. The pump shakes blood, it repeatedly passes through the device, cleared and again falls into the body. For a session pumped up to 120 liters of blood, despite the fact that a person has only about 5 liters.
Doctors have access to only blood, but it is necessary to clean the whole organism, pull out the slags of fabrics. Poeto-Processor Dialysis should be long. 4 hours 3 times a week - the minimum mode to which world medical science has come to. Dialysis removes not only toxins, but also excess fluid.
Since dialysis - manipulation with blood, all concerns the possibility of infection with the immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis and t. D. It is theoretically possible to transfer some kind of infection from the patient to the patient with medical staff, so only disposable consumables are used: tubes, dialysters, gloves, syringes, each patient has an individual table.
Dialysis treatment is for a long time. Patients starting in the 1960s. In the Seattle Clinic at Belding Skribner or in the French Center at Dr. Bernard Bowl in G. Tasten, on dialysis for more than 30 years. But the technique is improving all the time. And today people can live even longer. Another question: what is the quality of this life? Dialysis centers become for patients with the second home. 4 hours three times a week plus the time of arrival and departure. In fact, 3 working days per week they spend in the hospital. However, the medical medicine accumulates experience and home dialysis when the patient could serve himself. It is quite possible, in the near future, homemade dialysis will become accessible to many patients with polycystic kidney.
How not to get to dialysis
Ounce prevention is better pound treatment. Dialysis - Treatment high-tech and expensive, t. E. not for all. As a rule, the inhabitants of large cities can get it. And the disease can overtake at any age and at any time. Therefore, it is better not to launch it until the stage, when only dialysis or transplantation can help. Polycystic kidney polycysticity revealed at the earliest stage. This means that without dialysis, you can live for many years and maintain the residual kidney function, observing the diet, taking medication.
Patients need to be initiated. Once a year, pass three simple analysis - on hemoglobin, creatinine, urea - it is able to do any person in any polyclinic.
