A cruel fact: families with 6 types of kidney disease may 'stay' in the next generation

Kidney disease is currently a relatively common type of disease, and some kidney diseases are more typical hereditary. If the kidney disease is caused by congenital problems, it is generally difficult to treat, and there is a greater probability that it will develop into uremia. For this type of kidney disease, it is necessary to achieve early prevention and early control.

So which kidney diseases are congenital genetic diseases?

1. Polycystic kidney disease

This is a relatively common hereditary kidney disease, mainly manifested as cysts in the kidney, and polycystic kidney disease means that there are multiple cysts of different sizes in the kidney, which will affect kidney function for a long time. Compared with benign renal cysts , the harm of this disease is greater, and there is a greater probability that it will develop into uremia. In addition, the treatment of this disease is also difficult, and it is easy to cause various diseases such as abnormal heart valves or dilated bile ducts during the development process.

2. Hereditary nephritis

Hereditary nephritis is a hereditary glomerular basement membrane lesion, which mainly manifests as damage to the glomerular basement membrane in patients. In the early stage, this damage cannot be improved by drugs. It is easy to develop into uremia during the period of uremia, and you can use Puli drugs or cyclosporine to delay the disease, but the drugs cannot effectively solve the disease problem, and patients need long-term control in their lives to reduce the burden on the kidneys.

3. Fabry disease

Fabry disease, also known as diffuse cutaneous angiokeratoma, is a typical genetic disease. Patients with this disease will experience varying degrees of kidney damage as they grow older. Generally, long-term use of drugs is required for replacement therapy, but this The cost of this treatment is relatively high, and if it cannot prevent renal function damage, it will also cause irreversible damage to other organs.

4. Congenital nephrotic syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome is a disease mainly manifested by a variety of symptoms such as massive proteinuria and hyperlipidemia. Congenital nephrotic syndrome is a disease problem that occurs within six months after birth. In some serious cases, the fetus already has obvious symptoms of nephrotic syndrome in the womb. Generally, the effect of hormone and immunosuppressant treatment is not significant. Compared with the general nephrotic syndrome, it is more difficult to control the symptoms, and the treatment method is relatively Single, kidney transplantation is needed to completely solve the functional problems of the patient's kidneys.

5. Thin basement membrane nephropathy

This disease, also known as benign familial hematuria, is a less harmful congenital kidney disease in which the glomerular basement membrane thins early on and causes occult blood in the urine. When the disease is not obviously aggravated, the patient will not have symptoms, and hematuria is often found during physical examination or related urine tests, and some patients will also be accompanied by relatively mild proteinuria, but it is not easy to directly damage kidney function.

6. Abnormal kidney malformation

Abnormal kidney malformation is a congenital disease caused by obvious developmental malformation of the kidney parenchyma. The most common is that the kidneys are not fully developed, or there are multiple kidneys and abnormal kidney positions. These problems are more serious and will lead to loss of renal function, so early surgical treatment is required according to the patient's condition.

Congenital kidney problems are relatively obvious, and most of them have the possibility of life-threatening in the early stage, so they need to be discovered in time and choose the appropriate treatment plan. Most of the various congenital kidney diseases will affect the kidney function and even lead to kidney failure. Therefore, patients need to strengthen kidney care in life to reduce kidney damage.