What is renal atrophy?

First learned that the renal atrophy should be considered as congenital renal hypoplasia
Secondly, consider the end-stage renal disease, renal failure, uremia, or some acute illness. Such as: acute glomerular diseases, diabetic kidney stiffening of kidney transplant rejection, chronic glomerulonephritis, renal cortical necrosis, Alport syndrome, acute tubular necrosis, hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
The kidneys shrink Generally speaking, the development of chronic kidney disease to renal insufficiency, especially renal failure, uremia, serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, serious kidney damage, renal parenchyma hurt, the kidney will be reduced. So remind renal atrophy and the patient must be this high degree of attention, very occult renal disease, glomerular filtration rate of less than 50%, clinical symptoms of severe kidney damage was consequential. Must be positive after diagnosis of renal atrophy and find out the reasons, in order to troubleshoot the disease.
Renal atrophy reason there are two things:
Renal tuberculosis (unilateral renal reduced, with contralateral hydronephrosis or compensatory increase), renal artery stenosis and congenital hypoplasia. Patients with renal atrophy will appear nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and anemia. Continued deterioration will occur uremia.
Renal atrophy patients will face, leg edema, the symptoms of skin itching, and may also be accompanied by swelling of the feet, some patients will have severe back pain, can not long-term sedentary. Renal atrophy due to long-term kidney problems, overwork caused suffering renal atrophy, legs and feet have swollen phenomenon, blood pressure will rise high with the sicker. The body will gradually become emaciated down.