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Glomerulosclerosis
Refers to a hardening of the glomerulus in the kidney. It is a general term to describe scarring of the kidneys' tiny blood vessels, the glomeruli, the functional units in the kidney that filter urine from the blood.
Symptoms:
- Swelling in body parts like your legs, ankles and around your eyes (called edema)
- Weight gain due to extra fluid building in your body
- Foamy urine caused by high protein levels in the urine (called proteinuria)
- High fat levels in the blood (high cholesterol)
- Low levels of protein in the blood
Preliminary plan:
- General practitioner appointment
- Urologist appointment
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Urinalysis
- Stool analys - Protozoans and Helminths (microscopy)
- Blood test:
- Urea (BUN)
- Creatinine
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Glucose
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
- Alanine transaminase (ALT)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
- Bilirubin (total, direct)
- Cholesterol
- HDL Cholesterol
- LDL Cholesterol
- Triglycerides
- Potassium Sodium Chlorine (K, Na, Cl) (blood)
- CK-creatine kinase
- Kidney ultrasound
- Excretory urography
- Doppler imaging of renal vessels
- Abdominal ultrasound: liver, gallbladder, pancreas
- Chest X-ray
Doctors
Neurologist
Doctor of the highest qualification category «Neurology»
Neurologist, reflexologist
Candidate of Medical Science
