scholarly journals “I am tired of the disease and eating too many medicines”: seeking adolescent’s lived experiences about chronic renal disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 3988
Author(s):  
Rohit Shah ◽  
Neha Adsul
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Irreversible Damage ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Indian Study ◽  
Major Shift

Background: Chronic renal disease (CRD), results from a range of conditions that cause irreversible damage to the kidneys and is a recognised major medical problem worldwide. CRD in children and adolescent’s is an enervating condition requiring lifelong treatment in order ‘to survive’. Several researchers have criticised the research on children with CRD as most of these studies rely on standardized tools which seem to be grounded in objectivity and quantification.Methods: In this milieu, this Indian study adopts a qualitative approach underpinned by the philosophy of Husserlian phenomenology with descriptive phenomenology as a method. The primary purpose of the study was to delve into the lives of adolescents suffering from CRDs to understand their perceptions about how this challenging condition affects and changes their lives.Results: CRD is a chronic condition that confines the lives of these adolescents by demanding a major shift to more prescribed and restrictive lifestyle.Conclusions: The lives of the adolescent participants conveyed a paradoxical nature in terms of suffering; struggling to cope with the stringent lifestyle changes and yet trying to be adapting to the disease to moving forward in life.

scholarly journals “It’s OK now as I am suffering from it since a long time”: a phenomenological understanding of what life is like for adolescents living with Chronic Renal Disease (CRD).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Shah ◽  
Neha Adsul
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Irreversible Damage ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Indian Study ◽  
Long Time

Chronic renal disease (CRD henceforth), results from a range of conditions that cause irreversible damage to the kidneys and is a recognised major medical problem worldwide. CRD in children and adolescent’s is an enervating condition requiring lifelong treatment in order ‘to survive’. Several researchers have criticised the research on children with CRD as most of these studies rely on standardised tools which seem to be grounded in objectivity and quantification. In this milieu, this Indian study adopts a qualitative approach underpinned by the philosophy of Husserlian phenomenology with descriptive phenomenology as a method. The primary purpose of the study was to delve into the lives of adolescents suffering from CRDs to understand their perceptions about how this challenging condition affects and changes their lives. The study findings uncovered a tapestry of complex interlinked changed ways of lives that the participants with such a condition must adopt along with constant daily struggle of conforming to a prescriptive way of life. The study outlined the lived experiences of these participants which were paradoxical in terms of suffering; hope in their struggle to deal with such a chronic condition and yet moving forward in life.

scholarly journals Functional hypoparathyroidism secondary to magnesium deficiency in long-term users of proton pump inhibitor

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Lilit V. Egshatyan
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Proton Pump ◽  
Bone Fractures ◽  
Magnesium Deficiency ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Causal Relation ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Serum Magnesium ◽  
Lifestyle Changes

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a gastrointestinal motility disorder that results from the reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus resulting in symptoms or complications. GERD is now widely prevalent around the world, with clear evidence of increasing prevalence in many developing countries. Treatment for most people with GERD includes lifestyle changes and medication. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a mainstay therapy for all gastric acid-related diseases. Long-term use of PPIs is associated with hypomagnesaemia, hypokalemia, hypocalcaemia, osteoporosis and bone fractures, chronic renal disease, acute renal disease, and other. Clinical concerns arise from a small but growing number of case reports presenting PPI-induced hypomagnesaemia. In 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is informing the public that prescription PPI may cause low serum magnesium levels if taken for prolonged periods of time. In this article, we present the case of a 56-year-old patient with muscle cramps, violation of cardiac rhythm, lethargy and other caused by hypomagnesaemia, hypocalcaemia and hypokalemia with a low parathyroid hormone level while using a PPI. After magnesium repletion abnormalities resolved. A causal relation with PPI use was supported by the recurrence of hypomagnesaemia after re-challenge.

Anemia of chronic renal disease

1970 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. 774-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Erslev
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease

Artificial organs and transplantation in treatment of chronic renal disease: Some psychological contributions

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgil Smirnow ◽  
Robert J. Shaloub ◽  
Jonathan W. Cummings ◽  
Vincent Glaudin ◽  
Roy Brener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Artificial Organs

Protective effects of dietary phytoestrogens in chronic renal disease

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tedine Ranich ◽  
Sam J. Bhathena ◽  
Manuel T. Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Protective Effects

Cause and management of heart failure in patients with chronic renal disease

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Al-Ahmad ◽  
Mark J. Sarnak ◽  
Deeb N. Salem ◽  
Marvin A. Konstam
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease

Diagnoses Generated by Numerical Taxonomic Methods Applied to Standard Blood Variables

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
L. A. Abbott ◽  
J. B. Mitton
Keyword(s):  
Liver Cirrhosis ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Discriminant Function Analysis ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Infectious Hepatitis ◽  
Components Analysis

Data taken from the blood of 262 patients diagnosed for malabsorption, elective cholecystectomy, acute cholecystitis, infectious hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, or chronic renal disease were analyzed with three numerical taxonomy (NT) methods : cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and discriminant function analysis. Principal components analysis revealed discrete clusters of patients suffering from chronic renal disease, liver cirrhosis, and infectious hepatitis, which could be displayed by NT clustering as well as by plotting, but other disease groups were poorly defined. Sharper resolution of the same disease groups was attained by discriminant function analysis.

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