Proteinuria Classification

Kidney disease such as proteinuria lives belong among relatively common type of the disease, but also affect the health of patients with kidney to a patient brought ordinary people can not imagine the pain, so we hope for patients with this disease can actively correct treatment, then to We need to think properly treat the type of disease suffering from symptomatic treatment.

1. Functional proteinuria

Mild proteinuria is a benign, after removal of the reason may soon disappear, 24h urinary protein generally not more than 0.5g, which produces the mechanism is unclear, it may be affected by external factors cause kidney renal vascular spasm, congestion, kidney a small increase in glomerular filtration rate, seen in strenuous exercise, long march, high temperature environment. Fever, cold environment, nervousness, congestive heart failure.

2. pathological urinary protein

It is the most common and significant proteinuria seen in primary or secondary kidney disease, generally more protein in urine, urine sediment in clinical manifestations of red blood cells, white blood cells, camp type, edema, hypertension and so on.

3. orthostatic urinary protein

It features the appearance of proteinuria and body position, long-term standing, walking, etc. lordosis. Orthostatic proteinuria is due to renal vein distortion or compression of the left renal vein lordosis of the spine, causing temporary circulatory disorders caused by supine 1h urine protein disappear or decrease. When suspected orthostatic proteinuria, were measured in the morning before getting up, significant differences in the urine protein may occur after getting up. Lordosis caused by, ask the patient standing against the wall for 10 min observation, if the urine protein appears to confirm the diagnosis. Diagnose orthostatic proteinuria should be careful, take time followed generally observed more than five years, the disease did not change, continued normal renal function, for diagnosis. Once the presence of persistent proteinuria, when the function damage, should be promptly corrected diagnosis and timely treatment measures.

Proteinuria such diseases, we must not blindly treatment, must be based on the type of interest contained in the symptomatic treatment of patients willing to find some relief for each proteinuria disease disease, reducing kidney disease to patients bring harm.

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