Name: Mr. Lin
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Country: China
Admission time: October 23, 2007
Discharge time: November 14, 2007
Admission diagnosis: Diabetic Nephropathy, ESRD
Condition before the treatment:
Mr. Lin came to our hospital for treatment of his Diabetic Nephropathy End
Stage and many severe diabetic complications:
1. Hyperkalemia (6.19mmol/L) -- this can lead to irregular heartbeats and
cardiac arrest, which may threaten his life;
2. Hypertension (160/80mmHg) -- this can result in cerebrovascular
accident;
3. Pericardial effusion -- this can cause cardiac tamponade;
4. High blood coagulation, high viscosity, and hypoproteinemia -- it can
easily lead to the formation of thrombus, and cause oliguria or anuria;
5. Diabetic kidney disease -- high creatinine level 452umol/L;
6. Heart failure -- Mr. Lin slept for no more than 2 hours at night in the
recent week.
Treatment procedure:
Western medicines for treatment of diabetic complications;
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy: lower blood pressure;
Condition after the treatment:
After several days' treatment, Mr. Lin improved a lot: 1) After 3 days, high
blood pressure was reduced to 150/75mmHg. 7 days later, the degree is
130/70mmHg. Blood pressure decreases continuously; 2) On the second day after
hospitalization, he could lay himself flat on bed and sleep for 2~3 hours. On
the third day, he could sleep for 6 hours and 7.5 hours on the 7th day; 3) Other
symptoms like swelling got relieved. Blood sugar level kept stable.
Check up: K+ 4.91mmol/L，loss of 2kg in body weight，chest stufly disappeared,
urine output 1600ml/24h.
With Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmoterhapy, Mr. Lin's kidney damage was repaired
gradually. His disease condition was stable, and returned to home on November 14
for further consolidating home treatment under our doctor's instruction.