Chronic Nephritis, Chronic Glomerulonephritis as another name, is a kind of
Chronic Kidney Disease, which mainly refers to the glomerular damage. Chronic
Kidney Disease can cause many damages on various organs; similarly, Chronic
Nephritis can give rise to many complications.
Renal Anemia
● When renal units are damaged, our kidneys can not play their functions
smoothly. Glomerulus has function of filtration, and when they are damaged, they
can not filter out excessive water and electrolyte, leading to the occurance of
anemia and abnormal function of platelet, lymphocyte as well as obstacles of
clotting syImmunotherapy. Among these changes, anemia is the most serious
one.
● Infection
For patients with Chronic Nephritis, their immunity is poorer than that of
healthy people. Long-term proteinuria means the greatly loss of protein, which
will lead to malnutrition and disorder of immunologic function. Patients with
Chronic Nephritis are easy to get respiratory tract infection, urinary tract
infection and skin infection. These infections are difficult to treat and after
getting infection, patients may have no obviously symptoms. As malignant
incitant, respiratory tract infection, urinary infection and skin infection
always trigger the acute attack of Chronic Nephritis, which will aggravate the
illness condition.
● High Blood Pressure.
Chronic renal insufficiency usually gives rise to serious cardiovascular
complications such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, myocardosis,
pericarditis and renal insufficiency. The major cause of these complications is
the abnormal metabolism. According to the statistics, the incidence of high
blood pressure reaches as high as seventy percent to eighty percent. Nearly all
the patients who have to receive renal replacement therapy have high blood
pressure. Among these patients, low-salt diet and dialysis can decrease the
blood pressure effectively for three quarters of them. However, for the rest
patients, their blood pressure increases after they do dialysis.
The appearance of these complications means that patients’ disease is
aggravated, so patients with Chronic Nephritis should receive treatment as soon
as possible.
