does fabry disease affect the kidneys?

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Answer 1

Lipid build up: There is alipid build up in the kidneys and in the blood vessels feeding the kidneys.

Answer 2

Yes: Fabry disease is called cardiocerebrorenal syndrome because it affects the vessels of the heart, brain, and kidneys most often.

Answer 3

Usually no: Healthy urine has little smell and should be clear to light yellow. Dehydration, vitamins and certain foods can temporarily change the color or smell of urine. Certain liver diseases and rare metabolic conditions like maple syrup urine disease can cause dramatic changes in the smell of urine. If you notice a change that does not resolve on its own you should check with your doctor.

Answer 4

Rare: All procedures carry a risk. For that matter, driving your car is one of the riskiest things you do on a daily basis. Procedures, such as lumbar puncture, could cause bleeding or abscess formation, and could lead to paralysis. Usually there is a good reason to do it though.

Answer 5

Possible but RARE: You would have to have a major complication which is exceedingly rare and possibly related to some other underlying disprder suvh as hemophilia.

Answer 6

No: The routine lumbar puncture is done below the level of the spinal cord.

Answer 7

That: Would be like getting struck by lightening. Also lp's are done below where nerves which could paralyze you run.

Answer 8

Rarely: I have seen this happen twice in the span of my medical career, both instances in which the performing physician was not aware of the patients' use of blood thinners. Hematomas formed and extended upward from the "safe" levels of lumbar puncture up to the spinal cord.

Answer 9

Urine test: Kidney disease generally progresses over several years without any symptoms. Your doctor should be able to measure the levels of a protein called Albumin in your urine. Albumin levels should be monitored yearly in diabetic patients to monitor kidney function.

Answer 10

Lab tests: You need to have regular lab tests to check your kidney function. The urine is checked for protein and blood tests are used to estimate the glomerular filtration rate, a measure of kidney function. Previously used nuclear medicine tests are now extremely rare. Usually, people cannot feel an early decline in kidney function, so lab tests are essential.

Answer 11

Lab Tests: Blood tests for nitrogen containing waste products like BUN and creatinine are useful, and allow the calculation of estimated filtration rate (egfr) to check the efficiency of the kidneys. However, screening for protein in the urine with a sensitive test called microalbumin picks up damage from diabetes even earlier.

Answer 12

Urine and blood labs: some tests used to check kidneys' health in diabetes are: 1. urine microalbumin/creatinine ratio 2. GFR 3. Creatinine Maintaining a very low carb lifestyle helps to halt and sometimes even revert the kidney changes of diabetes.

Answer 13

Local anesthesia: This is a block in which a local anesthesia is injected into the lumbar plexus of nerves to alleviate the symptoms of nerve irritation.

Answer 14

Injection procedure: A lumbar sympathetic block is a quick, outpatient procedure used primarily to diagnose and treat sympathetically-mediated pain the lower extremities. It is typically performed under live fluoroscopic imaging to help guide needle placement. Patients can expect to have a warmth sensation in their leg after the procedure and hopefully relief from their presumed pain.

Answer 15

Sympathetic block: A lumbar sympathetic block is an injection of local anesthetic around the sympathetic nerves. These sympathetic nerves are a part of the sympathetic nervous system. The nerves are located on the either side of spine, in the lower back.

Answer 16

GFR 10: This differs for everyone but in a relatively narrow range. Some patients with cardiac disease benefit from dialysis at higher GFR (low creatinine), african americans seem to tolerate higher creatinine without symptoms. In general convert the creatinine to egfr (online calculator) and expect dialysis at egfr less than 15 ml/min.

Answer 17

It depends: Usually when kidney function is less than 20% doctors start discussing about dialysis.Typically dialysis is started when kidney function is less than 10%. However if symptoms occur earlier, some start when kidney function is less than 15%

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