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Chronic renal failure is still a major health problem in medicine world. An adequate treatment could only retard the progress of renal failure and delay the course toward end-stage renal disease, a condition that requires maintenance dianalysis or kidney transplantation. Managable factors should always be identified and promptly treated. Dietary therapy may be able to cope with uremic symptoms,…
Functional and structural abnormalities in diabetic kidney disease lead to intraglomerular hypertension and albuminuria. Systemic hypertension and genetically inherited defect on autoregulation in preglomerular arterioles will enhance kidney injury in those patients. ACE inhibitors could reduce albuminuria in patients with diabetic nephropathy and animal models. Hemodynamic improvement manifest…
Many reports showed that hypophosphatemia is prevalent in patients of lung disease with respiratory failure. Correction for hypophosphatemia may improve respiratory capacity, hence, morbidity and mortality. Serum phosphate levels may reflect intracellular phosphate pool. A decrease in intracellular phosphate may implicate muscular adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) and red blood cell 2.3 di-phosphog…
Aging may affect functional and structural changes of the urinary tract which modify the response against infection. Structural changes in elderly such as prostate hypertrophy, urinary tract stone, the use of catheter, and the presence of cystoceles should be treated properly. Attention should be paid on functional abnormalities in elderly may also play a role in the changes. Those factors make…
A descriptive analytic and observational study was conducted to determine whether type II diabetes mellitus with incipient nephropathy have significant increased risk factors for cardiovascular disease than those without nephropathy. Thirty four patients with type II diabetes mellitus (non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus) treated in the Department of Internal Medicine Dr. Sardjito General H…
To determine the relationship between some aggravating factors namely dyslipidemia, diabetic retinopathy, and microalbuminuria and Blood Pressure (BP) in Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) patients we screened NIDDM patients for BP, lipid profile, and the presence of retinopathy and microalbuminuria at in-patient department of Internal Medicine Sardjito General Hospital, Yogyakarta…