Case of Success in Halting the Progression of Renal Failure among Patients with Low Protein Diets.
10.2185/jjrm.44.16
- VernacularTitle:低蛋白食実行者に見出された腎不全進行完全抑止例の特徴について
- Author:
Tatsuo SHIIGAI
;
Toshihiko HATA
;
Koji HATTORI
;
Hitoshi IWAMOTO
;
Yoshitaka MAEDA
;
Akira OOWADA
;
Kunihiko KATO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1995;44(1):16-21
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Seven years ago, we began the “Toride Project” which aimed at organized care, mainly on based a low-protein diet (LPD), for chronic renal failure patients. This project cumulatively involved 486 patients, and 219 of them have been followed up at our hospital.
In this paper, we report the 12 patients who had before shown progressive deterioration of renal function and turned out stable (less than 5% change) in creatinine clearance (Ccr) for 12-54 months after involved in the project. Their diseases were chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN; 10 cases) and nephrosclerosis (NSC; 2 cases), and the mean Ccr was 20.9±1.3 (SE) ml/min (16-32 ml/min). All of them carried out the well maintained LPD (0.62±0.02 g/kg/day), and showed relatively low urinary protein excretion (UPE; 0.4±0.2g/day). In contrast, 10 other cases (CGN; 9, NSC; 1) showed persistent deterioratiom of renal function even if they continued the LPD (0.60±0.02 g/kg/day). They significantly showed higher UPE (1.6±0.3 g/day, p<0.05) than the 12 cases mentioned above. Moreover, frequent examination revealed that the day-to-day change in their protein intake was more widely distributed (coefficient of variation; 19.5±1.3% vs 10.8±0.6%, p<0.05).
