Essential features of the treatment of chronic renal failure in the dog*

Abstract

The consequences of chronic renal failure are enumerated and the recommended measures for mitigating them are described. Treatments vary according to whether the disease is in the compensated or terminal phase. Résumé. On énumère les conséquences des maladies rénales chroniques et on décrit les mesure recommandées pour les atténuer. La traitements varient selon que la maladie se trouve au stade compensé ou terminal. Zusammenfassung. Die Folgen chronischen Nierenversagens werden aufgezählt und die empfohlenen Massnahmen zu ihrer Linderung beschrieben. Die Behandlung richtet sich danach, ob die Krankheit sich in der Kompensationsoder terminalen Phase befindet.

Prevalence of Renal Anaemia in Nagpur City

“…Additionally, uremia leading to the increased fragility of erythrocytes, shortened life-span of erythrocytes, gastro-intestinal bleeding in the form of haematemesis, melena, toxic metabolites is responsible for anemia in uremia. The causes of renal anemia include deficiency of erythropoietin (Desforges, 1970;Sikole, 2000;Yamaguchi-Yamada et al, 2004;Kaw andMalhotra, 2006 andLankhorst andWish, 2010) as the fundamental factor due to the damaged, non-functional nephrons (Bush, 1971) being incapable for erythropoietin production.…”