Thursday, July 23, 2015

The Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease

PKD is a common genetic kidney problem with numerous cysts in kidney. In cases of PKD, kidney cysts enlarge over time and this may cause damages on surrounding kidney structure and thus affect kidney from functioning properly.

1. Emergence period

PKD is a kind of genetic disease. Before 20 years old it`s difficult to find because the cysts are small.

2. Growth period

During 30-40 years old, cysts will grow quickly so patients should ovserve regularly. They should take positive treatment to restrain the growth of cysts.

3. Swelling period

When patients are over 40 years old, cysts will grow further. Once over 4cm, it belongs to swelling period. Lots of symptoms will appear with the growth of cysts like back pain, proteinuria, blood urine, hypertention and so on. Now it is the most important period to take comprehensive treatment. It will help to promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis and detox.

4. Ulceration period

If cysts are growing all the time, it will fracture under some external reason. Once it fractures, patients should go to hospital immediately.

5. Uremia period


To treat uremia, they should take hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.

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