Hydronephrosis of the kidney: surgery and a return to the habitual way of life

Hydronephrosis is a severe kidney disease. This ailment is characterized by a gradual increase in the enlargement of the pelvis and the whole, so-called, collective renal system. The patient's condition is usually complicated by the atrophy of all the kidney tissue. And, if a person receives from the doctor the conclusion "kidney hydronephrosis", the operation becomes the only way to get rid of the disease.

Diagnostic procedures for hydronephrosis

In the early stages of the disease, hydronephrosis is diagnosed quite difficult.

The simplest, fairly accurate and fastest method is an ultrasound examination that allows you to judge the changes that occur in the kidney:

• a change in the tissue structure;
• increase in its dimensions;
• tissue thinning;
• expansion of cups and pelvis.

If any changes are detected by doctors, a renal X-ray is administered. Using this procedure, the doctor determines the exact size of the kidneys, and also determines the presence of stones, which quite often become satellites of hydronephrosis. There are cases when the study shows that in the kidneys it is the stones that cause the bloody impurity in the urine, and not hydronephrosis at all. In this case, you should know that urolithiasis suggests a completely different treatment than the hydronephrosis ailment.

In order to understand how much the functionality of the kidneys is impaired, it is recommended to visit a doctor and hand over all necessary blood tests, as well as urine tests. In addition, you will need to make a urography( intravenous).In some cases, doctors prescribe to patients and scintigraphy, computed tomography, as well as kidney scanning( radionuclide).

For the observation of the patient, the exact history of his disease is being maintained, because kidney hydronephrosis is a good reason for setting the patient for dispensary registration.

Operation as a method of treatment and elimination of the disease

First of all, the cure for hydronephrosis is directly in eliminating the cause of the disease. If this is an abnormal and inborn development, then elimination of such a cause is possible only with the help of surgical methods, and the patient is assigned a procedure for kidney removal in hydronephrosis.

But, if it comes to acquired hydronephrosis, then there are several other treatment options. The patient in this case immediately hospitalized, in the hospital he undergoes examinations. When confirming the diagnosis of "hydronephrosis", doctors first try to establish the causes of the development of the disease, and then the appropriate treatment is directed, first of all, to eliminate all conditions that contributed to the development of the disease.

If the symptoms of hydronephrosis appeared at the first, earliest stages, and the patient was correctly diagnosed in time, then, probably, the work and functions of the kidneys are not severely violated yet. In this case, the patient undergoes close monitoring, both radiological and clinical.

This is important! In all other stages with kidney hydronephrosis, surgical intervention is simply necessary. The most important thing is to completely eliminate the stagnation of urine in the kidneys to exclude obstruction of the affected urinary tract. And without an operative intervention specialist here is simply not enough.

Hydronephrosis of the kidney: an operation and a return to the habitual way of life

With the doctor's diagnosis of "hydronephrosis of the kidney," the patient's treatment is, first of all, in operational methods. But it should be remembered that to cure the disease, conservative methods, a diet( intake of at least two liters of liquid per day, the use of fresh berries and vegetables) should also be used. The patient needs to consume more high-calorie food( about 3 thousand Kcal / day, for example, eggs and potatoes, but not fish and meat).

Since the kidneys can not be avoided without the operation in the treatment of hydronephrosis, the patient should realize that this is his only way out, especially in the late stages of the disease, when there are already significant impairments in kidney function.

Two methods of surgical treatment have become most common now:

• 1 way: the doctor makes a joint between the ureter and the pelvis. In this case, an additional path is created for urine, while the pressure on the kidney decreases.
• 2 way: the specialist eliminates the cause of constriction of the calyx-and-pelvic region, for this the kidney is dissected longitudinally, and then cross-linked.

As you know, after the operation, hydronephrosis is cured in almost 100% of cases. And the patient's recovery lasts on average from three to five days. Two weeks after the operation, the patient, as a rule, completely returns to a normal lifestyle.

If the diagnosis is confirmed and you have hydronephrosis of the kidney, do not immediately fall into despair - treatment, when it is prescribed by the doctor correctly, avoids all the dangerous consequences of the disease! Therefore, contact the specialists in a timely manner, and only reliable clinics for treatment are chosen.

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