Abstract

BETANCOURT REYES, Aleida; PEREZ RODRIGUEZ, Zoila; RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ, Elisa  and  RODRIGUEZ APOLINARIO, Norlan. Magnetotherapy in patients presenting with phases 1 and 2 secondary chronic renal disease. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.3-4, pp. 269-277. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction: the chronic renal disease is a slow and a progressive loss not usually irreversible of kidney functions due to diseases producing a diffuse bilateral destruction of renal parenchyma. Objective: to asses the usefulness of magnetotherapy of patients presenting with chronic renal disease. Methods: a prospective, experimental and explicatory study was conducted in 48 patients with a secondary chronic renal disease in 1 and 2 phase. Patients were divided into two groups of 24 each. Group I (experimental): received pharmacologic treatment (captopril, enalapril, atenolol, folic acid) in individual doses and dietetic hygienic treatment combining with magnetic bed, placed over the kidneys projection at 50 Hz, 75 %, 20 min from Monday to Friday for a total of 20 sessions. Group II (control): received pharmacologic and hygienic-dietetic treatment similar to group I for 20 days. The clinics was assessed (questioning and physical examination) and the complementary studies (proteinuria, creatinine and glomerular filtrate) before and after treatment in both groups. Results: at the end of treatment the 45 % (11 patients) from the study group remained asymptomatic and reduced in a 50 % or more the initial figures of the glomerular filtrate, creatinine without proteinuria. Conclusions: the association of magnetotherapy with the treatment of patients presenting with chronic renal disease in phase 1 and 2.

Keywords : renal insufficiency; magnetotherapy; magnetotherapy for renal insufficiency.