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What does it mean to be diagnosed with atrophic kidney?
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Wasting away: The label suggests a kidney that the kidney is smaller, less functional due to undefined event in the past.
Answered 3/25/2022
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It means: that the kidney is small/shrunken and probably not working well. This can be due to a variety of causes, such as poor blood flow, prior trauma, or prior infection.
Answered 1/23/2019
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