Acute Renal Failure: A Case Series  (Part 3)

Girish Gupta; Naveen Gupta; Dileep Pandey; Gaurang Gupta

doi:10.48165/ahr.2023.8.4.3

Authors

Girish Gupta Gaurang Clinic and Centre for Homoeopathic Research B-1/41, Sector A, Aliganj, Near Novelty Cinema, Kapoorthala, Lucknow-226 024 (U.P.), INDIA
Naveen Gupta Gaurang Clinic and Centre for Homoeopathic Research B-1/41, Sector A, Aliganj, Near Novelty Cinema, Kapoorthala, Lucknow-226 024 (U.P.), INDIA
Dileep Pandey B-1/41, Sector A, Aliganj, Near Novelty Cinema, Kapoorthala, Lucknow-226 024 (U.P.), INDIA
Gaurang Gupta B-1/41, Sector A, Aliganj, Near Novelty Cinema, Kapoorthala, Lucknow-226 024 (U.P.), INDIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/ahr.2023.8.4.3

Keywords:

Acute renal failure (ARF), serum urea, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), homoeopathic treatment

Abstract

Acute renal failure (ARF) is sudden reduction of renal function causing accumulation of nitrogenous wastes in blood leading to increased serum urea and creatinine level. In their previous publications Gupta et. al.(4,11,12) successfully demonstrated that majority of patients of chronic renal failure can be improved or at least prevented from further deterioration by homoeopathic treatment. This third case series is on the management of acute renal failure (ARF) by homoeopathic medicines. All the three cases are of drug induced ARF belonging to different age group. The first case is of a 60-year old hypertensive female with parkinsonism and thyrotoxicosis, second of a 24-year hypertensive male and third one is of a 57-year old hypertensive female. In all the 3 cases,repeated renal function test and eGFRcalculatedbyequationfromthe‘Modificationofi’(MDRD) equation (5) considering the age and creatinine, is considered the main parameter to assess the functional status of kidney and response to homoeopathic treatment.

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