Over 100,000 Medicare Patients May Suffer from Glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis may be caused by problems with the body's immune system. Often, the exact cause of glomerulonephritis is unknown. Many of the diseases are characterised by inflammation either of the glomeruli or small blood vessels in the kidneys, hence the name, but not all diseases necessarily have an inflammatory component. If the illness continues, the kidneys may stop working completely, resulting in kidney failure.

PHILADELPHIA—Researchers calculated that glomerulonephritis (GN) likely afflicts more than 100,000 Medicare patients, and the condition appears to be associated with high hospitalization and death rates, according to findings presented at the 2014 Kidney Week meeting.

James B. Wetmore, MD, and colleagues with the Chronic Disease Research Group in Minneapolis, Minn., used the 20% Medicare sample from 2007 to 2011 to identify GN cases. They calculated GN prevalence per 100,000 patients by dividing the number of GN cases by the total number of individuals in the database during the study period. The study population included a total of 8,276,664 individuals with a mean age of 68 years.

From 2007 to 2011, the GN prevalence was 433 primary GN cases per 100,000 individuals, representing 35,870 total cases. In addition, the study showed that there were 878 cases of GN resulting from systemic diseases per 100,000 individuals, which translated into 72,666 total cases.

Moreover, Dr. Wetmore's team found that the incidence rates of primary GN and GN resulting from systemic diseases were 86.7 and 136.1 cases per 100,000 patient-years, respectively. Total hospitalization rates were 2,083 and 2,093 hospitalizations per 1,000 patient-years, respectively, and death rates were 136 and 195 deaths per 1,000 patient-years, respectively.

Chronic Glomerulonephritis is caused by the ultra immune responses in kidneys caused by the kidneys hypoxic-ischemic, even worse, it is the result of long time’s blood pollution. So the treatment in our hospital, Traditional Chinese Medicine, work on cleaning the toxins in blood and promoting blood circulation to remove blood clots.

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If you have glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis is one of the leading causes of kidney disease that leads to chronic renal failure. Glomerulonephritis is characterized by the inflammation and scarring of the kidney filters (glomeruli). This inflammation and scarring cause the kidneys to slowly loose their ability to properly filter wastes and excess water from the blood and excrete it through the urine.
Glomerulonephritis may be a temporary and reversible condition, or it may be progressive. When you have progressive glomerulonephritis, it can result in the destruction of the kidney glomeruli and lead to chronic renal failure and end stage renal disease. This disease may be caused by specific problems with the body's immune system, but the precise cause of most cases is unknown.
Damage to the glomeruli with subsequent impaired filtering causes blood and protein to be lost in the urine. Because symptoms develop gradually, the disorder may be discovered when there is an abnormal urinalysis during routine physical or examination for unrelated disorders. Glomerulonephritis can cause hypertension and may only be discovered as a cause of hypertension that is difficult to control.
A kidney biopsy may make it possible to get a precise diagnosis of your kidney disease. The biopsy may identify the specific kidney disease as membranous glomerulonephritis, IgA nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, mesangial proliferative disorder, diabetic nephropahty or lupus nephritis. Each of these kidney diseases can lead to chronic renal failure.

The most important thing for patients with glomerulonephritis is to repair kidney damage and recover renal function. Take safety and efficiency into account, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Stem Cell Therapy will be recommended to patients. If you need more information about them, you can choose to consult online doctor freely or email us to kidneyfailure@hotmail.com.