Can a damaged kidney regenerate? (ie like a liver does)?

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My mother has diabetes and has been given a gfr of 47. Can kidney's potentially regenerate themselves if diabetes was not a problem?

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Can a damaged kidney regenerate? (ie like a liver does)?windows xp service

Regeneration is the ability of cells, tissues, and even organs in some cases, to grow and then replace in their entirety the cells, tissues, and organs. The more highly evolved the species, the lesser their capability to regenerate things that have been lost. For example, amphibians such as lizards can regenerate their tails, and starfish can regenerate their arms. These limbs can be lost completely, and a fully functioning replacement will eventually take its place as time goes on until the animal looks like new.

In mammals, the ability to regenerate is severely curtailed, and it doesn't happen very often. Humans can regenerate their livers. The regeneration in these instances is really a refined process of compensatory growth rather than true regeneration of the organ, but it works

In fact, the speed of liver regeneration after injury is quite astounding. If you have to resect [excise all or part of] a liver, for example, after a car accident where it's really mashed, you'll take out all of the damaged liver, stop the bleeding, sew things together, and you may have only 20 percent of the liver left. When that liver begins to regenerate, it will grow so fast that it will exceed the growth rate of any malignancy known to man. It will refill the space it previously occupied. It will definitely look abnormal, but it will be roughly the size and shape of the liver it was before.

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Can a damaged kidney regenerate? (ie like a liver does)?

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