UVA Nephrology: Offering Kidney Care and Treatment Options for Chronic Kidney Disease - What are the symptoms of kidney disease? Approach 2

UVA Nephrology: Offering Kidney Care and Treatment Options for Chronic Kidney Disease







Kidney disease is one of those
things in which there may not be any signs
that the patient may pick up on. But what
we can provide is the biochemical evidence
that toxin removal may not be occurring with
the same efficiency as it previously was.
If you look at patients who are in dialysis
units throughout the US, 70 percent of the
people who are now in dialysis, had either
diabetes or hypertension as the cause of their
kidney failure. So, we are very much interested
in determining what are the factors that contribute
to my kidney disease and how might I impact
those. What I think makes UVA nephrology a
leader in treatment of chronic kidney disease
or acute kidney injury, is that we're able
to offer the strength of the university's
nephrology division to multiple locations.
We have a chronic kidney disease clinic in
Augusta, we have one in Orange, we have one
at Piedmont Nephrology here in Charlottesville,
separate from our kidney center here in the
West Complex. These are all faculty people
in those locations, who participate in the
research, who do all of those things. And
so, all of those locations are able to then
draw upon the same resources that you would
have in a single location. I believe that
the main goal of UVA nephrology is very much
quality and quality can be improved by actually
educating the recipients of care the as to
the rational for providing their care. So
it's identifying the contributing factors
and then being in agreement as to the strategy
for treatment and the patient has an opportunity
to have some input into that then data shows
that we're going to have a better outcome.





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What are the symptoms of kidney disease? Approach 2




>> A doctor speaks with a patient in her office.
>> What are the symptoms of kidney disease?
>> Well unfortunately, most people
don't have any symptoms at all.
And sometimes we don't pick it up until
we do a blood test or a urine test.
So it's very important to get tested
so that we can start treatment early
and slow the progression of the disease.

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