Nephrosclerosis Malignant

Nephrosclerosis - benign or malignant formation? What is the patient at risk?

Patients with vascular pathologies (including the elderly) may face a threatening diagnosis - “nephrosclerosis”. This disease according to the ICD-10 classification is in the category of “diseases of the urinary system.” In addition, it is classified as a lifelong disease, which means it is currently impossible to cure it. Treatment is only symptomatic and supportive so that the patient can live as long as possible with a minimum number of complications. It is not always possible for a general practitioner to make a correct diagnosis, especially since even if an inoperable diagnosis is made, the patient has the opportunity to go the other way and have surgery. But more about everything.

If on a tomography you can clearly see the white edging of the renal glomerulus, as well as pronounced atrophy of the kidney parenchyma (erythrocytes become sclerotic), this is a sign of nephrosclerosis. This condition is diagnosed in most cases during hospitalization of elderly people over 60 years of age. The disease mainly occurs due to prediabetes (insulin resistance), when excess glucose is associated with tissue insensitivity to insulin. As a result, for the purpose of compensatory hyperglycemia, it is necessary to increase the supply of glucose through the gastrointestinal tract (according to the feedback principle, insulin release increases). And subsequently there is a weakening of the blood supply to the kidneys. This leads, as already