The appearance of renal atrophy is a very bad thing for patients, because it will not only cause great harm to their physical health, but also to their daily lives, and even affect their psychological health. So I hope we can all pay attention to the prevention of renal atrophy. Here are the causes of renal atrophy! Renal atrophy generally appears as left kidney atrophy, right kidney atrophy and double kidney atrophy symptoms. Generally speaking, the causes of renal atrophy are the following: firstly, after learning that renal atrophy needs to be considered as congenital renal dysplasia, and secondly, end-stage renal disease, i.e. renal failure, uremia or certain acute conditions. Such as: acute glomerular disease, diabetic nephrosclerosis, renal transplant rejection, chronic glomerulonephritis, renal cortical necrosis, acute tubular necrosis, hypertensive nephrosclerosis. First of all, bilateral kidney or one kidney shrinkage is mostly the cause of chronic pyelonephritis, which is also a common cause of renal atrophy. Double kidney shrinkage generally speaking chronic kidney disease develops to renal insufficiency, especially when renal failure, uremia, blood creatinine and urea nitrogen are elevated, kidney damage is serious, kidney parenchyma is injured, and kidney will shrink. Therefore, patients with renal atrophy should be reminded to pay high attention to this, the insidiousness of kidney disease is very strong, if the glomerular filtration rate is lower than 50%, that is, when the kidney damage is serious, the clinical symptoms are produced accordingly. After the diagnosis of renal atrophy, we must actively look for the cause in order to investigate the condition. In addition, there are two other causes of renal atrophy: renal tuberculosis (unilateral kidney shrinkage with hydronephrosis or compensatory enlargement of the contralateral kidney), renal artery stenosis and congenital dysplasia. In general, renal atrophy is closely related to prolonged kidney disease, as kidney-like diseases cause damage to kidney units, especially the glomerulus, causing the whole kidney to appear reduced in size. Renal atrophy and renal function changes go hand in hand, when patients with renal atrophy have or will certainly develop renal insufficiency and to renal failure – uremia. Warm reminder: once patients are diagnosed with renal atrophy, this phenomenon indicates that the kidneys of patients have been seriously damaged. If not actively treated, it is likely that the condition will deteriorate to the stage of uremic syndrome. I believe that all patients are afraid to hear about the disease of uremia, so suffering from renal atrophy, patients should be treated early to prevent the disease from deteriorating and bringing very serious consequences to themselves. The above article is about some factors that lead to kidney atrophy in life, I hope you have some knowledge about the causes of kidney atrophy after reading the above content, and do a good job in the prevention of the disease in the future life. Finally, I hope patients can recover soon.