Monday, August 24, 2015

What are the Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease

The childhood kidney patients with normal or slightly larger size and shape, age and size of the cyst gradually increasing number and increasing in most cases 40 to 50 years old kidneys volume growth to a considerable extent before the onset of symptoms. Mainly for bilateral renal enlargement, kidney pain, hematuria, and hypertension.

1. kidney enlargement

Progress on both sides of nephropathy asymmetry, size differences, to the late two kidneys may occupy the entire abdominal cavity, renal cyst surface has a lot of cloth to make kidney-shaped irregular, uneven, hard.

2. kidney pain

Often lower back pressure or dull, there are pain, sometimes abdominal pain. Pain may be due to physical activity, walking for too long, sedentary exacerbated after bed reduce. Renal hemorrhage due to move stones or infection is sudden severe pain.

3. hematuria

About half of the patients showed microscopic hematuria, may have episodes of gross hematuria, the Department of the cyst wall caused by ruptured blood vessels. Bleeding for a long time can cause colic clot through the ureter. White blood cells in urine is often accompanied by hematuria and proteinuria, urinary protein less, generally not more than 1.0 g / day. Obviously when pyuria kidney infection, hematuria aggravated, low back pain with fever.


4. Hypertension

Is a common manifestation of polycystic kidney disease, has not increased in serum creatinine before, about half hypertension, which cyst oppression surrounding tissue, activation of the renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system related. The past 10 years, Graham PC, Torre V and Chapman AB confirmed that the disease so normal kidney tissue, increased interstitial between the cyst and cyst epithelial cells adjacent renin granules, and renin secretion. These are closely related to the growth of cysts and hypertension. In other words, the emergence of hypertension cyst is growing rapidly, it can directly affect the prognosis.

5. renal insufficiency

Individual cases during adolescence appears renal failure, renal dysfunction rarely before the age of 40, 70 years old, about half remained kidney function, but the development of high blood pressure to shorten the process of kidney failure, also have individual patients 80 years of age still renal function can be maintained.

6. polycystic liver disease

Polycystic kidney disease found in middle-aged patients, about half of how polycystic liver, about 70% after 60 years. It is generally believed that its development is slow, and more about polycystic kidney disease 10 years later. Its cyst is formed by the lost bile duct dilatation. Moreover, pancreas and ovarian cysts may also occur, the higher complication rate of colonic diverticulitis.

7. Physical Examination

Palpable on physical examination of one or both kidneys, nodular. There tenderness with infection. 50% of patients with increased waist circumference.


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