What are the Causes of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Clinically, ESRD is a kind of common kidney disease whose harmfulness is tremendous. There are many factors which can lead to the occurrence of ESRD, so patients should pay much attention to them and effectively prevent it.
In general, for ESRD patients, their autoimmunity decreases or the mechanism of organic immunoregulation shows abnormality. Under this circumstance, if patients also suffer from colds, infections or excessive fatigue, the virus will easily ruin the defense barrier of the body and pose direct damage to the kidney. From the viewpoint of medical science, such kind of kidney damaged by virus has undergone fibrosis degeneration. The fibroid part of kidney will fail to perform its intrinsic function, which means that some substances which should be excreted out stay in the body and some others which should be stored in the body while leak out. As a result, protein and red blood cells in the bodies of Uremia patients leak out from the diseased kidney, which will finally lead to proteinuria, hematuria. On the other hand, creatinine, urea nitrogen, uric acid, white blood cells and water are left in the body while, which can result in the increase of creatinine and urea nitrogen and the appearance of inflammation and edema.
In fact, the above symptoms just belong to the early stage of kidney disease. If patients don’t take effective measures to ease the conditions of fibroid renal tissues, the remaining healthy parts will also gradually experience fibrosis. The damaging process of kidney is just like that a dam has a small hole, but people do not mend it and the hole will get bigger and finally ruin the whole dam.
Without any treating measures, the fibroid part of kidney will develop gradually from 10% of the total to 30%, 50% and even more. Beyond that, with the development of fibrosis, the process will get accelerated, because more fibroid renal tissues lead to decreasing nephrons and bring heavier workload to the remaining healthy part of kidney. Overwork will shorten the lifespan of kidney sharply and if the renal fibrosis reaches 90% of the total, Uremia will come into being.
A detailed knowing of the causes of ESRD can help patients take some preventing measures to avoid it and attach enough attention to some minor changes.

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