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While practising and helping numerous critically ill kidney disease patients in Fortis Mohali, he observed tremendous anguish, sadness and struggle for survival due to unbearable physical pain and financially crippling character of kidney disease in patients this made him very restless and moved him to such extent that he decided to help those less fortunate souls by founding a non ...
The Balkan endemic nephropathy was found to be caused by chronic intake of aristolochic acid, while the causes of Mesoamerican nephropathy that occurs in sugar cane cutters, Uddanam nephropathy and the Sri Lankan chronic kidney disease are still not clear despite years of research efforts. A review notes a "striking similarity" between these ...
The majority of untreated cases of FSGS will progress to end-stage kidney disease. [38] Important prognostic factors include the degree of proteinuria and initial response to therapy. [citation needed] Patients with nephrotic-range (>3.5 g/day) proteinuria have over a 50% rate of progression to end-stage kidney disease at 10 years. [6]
Medical doctors by city in India (8 C) ... Indian infectious disease physicians (3 P) L. Indian leprologists (5 P) M. Indian military medical officers (1 C, 5 P) N.
Nephrology (from Ancient Greek nephros 'kidney' and -logy 'the study of') is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal ...
The medical ethnobotany of India is the study of Indian medicinal plants and their traditional uses. Plants have been used in the Indian subcontinent for treatment of disease and health maintenance for thousands of years, and remain important staples of health and folk medicine for millions.
A low-protein diet is used as a therapy for inherited metabolic disorders, such as phenylketonuria and homocystinuria, and can also be used to treat kidney or liver disease. Low protein consumption appears to reduce the risk of bone breakage presumably through changes in calcium homeostasis. [1]
All people with a GFR <60 mL/min/1.73 m 2 for 3 months are defined as having chronic kidney disease. [59] Protein in the urine is regarded as an independent marker for the worsening of kidney function and cardiovascular disease. Hence, British guidelines append the letter "P" to the stage of chronic kidney disease if protein loss is significant ...