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Cacchi-Ricci Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Your kidneys have a vital role to play in your body functioning the way that it should. Your kidneys filter your blood and get rid of waste products. They also control your blood pressure, stimulate the production of red blood cells and balance levels of electrolytes in your body.

Your kidneys are placed in your abdomen near the back. One is located on each side of your spine, normally. Your kidneys receive their blood supply from the renal arteries directly out of your aorta, and they transport blood back to your heart through the renal veins to the vena cava. (The term “renal” is taken from the Latin name for kidney.)

Your kidneys have the capacity to monitor the acid-base balance of your body. They also monitor the concentrations of electrolytes like sodium and potassium and the amount of body fluid that is in your body. Your kidneys filter uric acid from DNA breakdown and waste products of your body metabolism like urea from protein metabolism.

Cacchi-Ricci disease is a disease in which tiny sacs that are referred to as cysts form in your medulla. This is the inner part of your kidney. These cysts create a sponge-like appearance. They prevent urine from flowing freely through your tubules. Tubules are tiny tubes that are located on the inside of your kidneys through which urine flows.

Some of the problems caused by Cacchi-Ricci disease are urinary tract infections, hematuria (blood in your urine) and kidney stones. In rare instances, this disease results in more serious difficulties like total kidney failure.

Although Cacchi-Ricci disease is congenital (present at birth), signs and symptoms do not usually begin until between the ages of 30 and 40. Cacchi-Ricci disease affects about 1 in 5,000 to 20,000 people in the United States. About 20% of the people who have kidney stones develop this disease.

Cacchi-Ricci disease may not cause you any signs or symptoms at all. Usually, the first sign or symptom of this disease is when you get a urinary tract infection or a kidney stone. Other possible signs and symptoms include:

 

  • Urine that is dark, cloudy or bloody
  • Burning or pain when you urinate
  • Urine that smells really bad
  • Vomiting
  • Pain in your back, lower abdomen or groin
  • Chills and fever.
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Cystinuria and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Cystinuria is an inherited metabolic disease. A metabolic disease is one in which your internal body chemistry that causes your body’s metabolism does not work like it should. You may have too much of some substances and not enough of other substances that you require to stay healthy.

Cystinuria is a disease that is evidenced by the accumulation of cystine stones or crystals in your bladder or kidneys. Cystine is an amino acid, which is one of the building blocks of proteins. Cystine is usually absorbed back into your blood stream as your kidneys filter blood to create urine. Cystine is not reabsorbed into your bloodstream like it should be when you have cystinuria.

Excess cystine forms crystals as your urine becomes more concentrated in your kidneys. The crystals form stones in your bladder or kidneys as they increase in size. These crystals and stones may reduce the ability of your kidneys to eliminate waste through urine and create blockages in your urinary tract. These stones may also be the site of where bacteria can cause infections.

Cystinuria affects around 1 in 10,000 people. Cystine stones occur most often in young adults who are under the age of 40. Men are more severely affected by cystinuria than women.

There are several different signs and symptoms that you may have with cystinuria. However, the sign or symptom that will be most noticeable is pain in your back or side or flank pain. This pain may:

  • Often be severe
  • Be felt also in your genitals, groin, pelvis or between your back and upper abdomen
  • Occur usually on one side, rarely on both sides
  • Get increasingly worse over a period of days.

Other signs and symptoms of cystinuria include:

  • Excess protein in your urine
  • Blood in your urine
  • Excess amino acids in your urine
  • Kidney stones
  • Malabsorption
  • Small stature.

You or a loved one may have cystinuria. Cystinuria and/or complications resulting from it or other conditions that you have along with this disease may have led to the disability of you or your loved one. It may be preventing you from working.

If this is the case, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have decided to apply for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by cystinuria and/or complications resulting from it or other conditions that you have along with this disease. You or your loved one may have already tried this option, and your claim was turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one intends to reapply or appeal the denial, here is something important for you to carefully consider. The fact of the matter is that people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer in their corner.

Please do not wait or put this off. Contact the disability attorney at Social Security Home, today.

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