What Are the Treatment Options for Stage 4 Kidney Disease

In stage 4 kidney disease, GFR falls to 15~29 ml/min. The normal range is 80 to120. Serum creatinine rises to 442-707umol/L. The normal range of GFR is 80 to 120 ml/min. Serum creatinine’s normal range is 44 to 103 umol/l. In China, serum creatinine is a very valuable reference on the diagnosis of the kidney disease for serum creatinine is a kind of small molecule metabolism waste, which is toxic and should have been discharged out of the body through renal glomerular basilar membrane into urine. However, due to failed kidney, creatinine accumulates into the body, which damages the body if it lasts for a long time.
Symptoms in stage 4 are such as fatigue, poor appetite, slight anemia. Patients can also suffer from high blood pressure, the less absorption of calcium, etc.
1. dialysis
In this stage, patients mostly have chosen dialysis or are going to choose dialysis. Indeed, in the world, most kidney disease patients will choose dialysis as long as the serum creatinine is as high as 445 umol/L. diabetic kidney disease patients will take dialysis as long as the creatinine is 300 umol/L. Long time dialysis cannot treat kidney disease by repairing damaged intrinsic cells and can make patients can not get rid of dialysis.
2. kidney transplant
Kidney transplant will be the ultimate choose for many kidney disease patients, which can help relieve for the time being indeed but also has disadvantages. For example, donated kidney is hard to get, patients will take medicine for the whole life on anti-resistance, kidney transplant has risk, transplanted kidney will also suffer from the deposition of immune complex, etc.
3. immunotherapy
As we mentioned in the second point, most kidney diseases are caused by immune disorder, which indicates that only when we clear away the immune complex and adjust the immune system, can our kidney disease get recover. On the basis of this, in our Hospital, we researched immunotherapy which can solve these problems. It is a combination therapy which combines Chinese medicine and western medicine such as Chinese Medicine and stem cell. It can not only repair the damaged intrinsic cells and differentiate into the dead ones as well as enhance the immunity, thus treating kidney disease from root.