Diagnosis and Examination of Kidney Failure
Diagnosis
and Examination of Kidney Failure
How
to diagnose kidney failure?
Medical care personnel
will diagnose chronic kidney failure and judge the seriousness of disease
according to the value of serum creatinine and glomerular filtration rate.
How
to examine chronic kidney failure?
Physical examination
Patients with chronic
kidney failure have many physical signs including hypertension, anemia face,
dark face, edema of face or lower extremities, mental disorder, systemic or
local bleeding, rapid and shallow breathing or orthopnea, distension of jugular
vein, enlargement of the liver and ascites.
Laboratory
examinations
(2) Blood routine examination
(3) Biochemistry
examination: Examinations of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine and glomerular
filtration rate.
(4) Imaging
examination: Chest X-rays, B-ultrasound
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