在门诊中,常有些水肿的病人来就诊。发生了水肿,一般人都认为是患了肾炎。其实,在门诊遇到的“水肿”者并非都是肾炎。检查的结果,有的是特发性水肿,还有的是内分泌疾病引起的水肿,甚至有些并非真正的水肿。把水肿都按肾炎治疗,岂不误事?水肿按发生的部位分为全身性水肿和局部性水肿,其病因各有不同。若是全身性水肿,用手指按压下肢,如有凹陷,称压陷性水肿,无凹陷者称非压陷性水肿。压陷性全身水肿也非肾脏病所特有,有 In the clinic, often some patients with edema to treatment. Edema occurred, most people think it is suffering from nephritis. In fact, encountered in the clinic “edema ” are not all nephritis. Check the results, some are idiopathic edema, there are edema caused by endocrine disease, and some are not real edema. According to the nephritis treatment of edema, is not wrong? Edema according to the site of occurrence is divided into systemic edema and local edema, its causes are different. If systemic edema, press the lower extremities with your fingers, if depression, said subsidence edema, no depression, said non-subsidence edema. Compressive systemic edema is not unique to kidney disease, there