Kidney Function

Nephrology is the medical specialty that deals with the kidney disease, its diagnosis and treatment. In its exercise could distinguish a level of primary health care, with some central issues such as urinary tract infections, hypertension, diseases and glomerulopathies lithiasis. And another very specific, referring to the establishment and management of alternative methods of renal function (dialysis).

Through the records of dialysis and transplantation in the world, we can infer that there are three diseases that most often determine the loss of kidney function. They are glomerulopathies, hypertension and diabetes. While the world around them are diseases of higher responsibility in the kidney, its distribution is uneven, and especially Latin America has some substantial differences with other regions of the planet.

The glomerulopathies are pathological processes that affect the glomerulus. We can quote the acute nephritic syndrome (or acute glomerulonephritis) and chronic nephritic diseases. Nephrotic syndrome is a set of signs of patency of the glomerular capillary membrane.

The Latin American Registry of Dialysis and Transplantation accuses these diseases as the most frequent cause of loss of renal function. This means that in this region need to work much more intensively in the early diagnosis and treatment of glomerular diseases.

According to the type of kidney disease that denote the histological study, there are opportunities to implement more effective therapeutic regimens, and prevent the development of renal failure that requires alternative methods.

The drugs used to treat these pathologies are not exempt from certain risks and side effects, but today can be handled more safely and effectively.

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