2013年6月14日星期五
Main Manifestations of Polycystic Kidney Disease
According to the clinical researches, most patients of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) have family medical history. So, people who have the family medical history of this disease, should pay attention to the manifestations of PKD in order to find it early and treat it in time. The main clinical manifestations of PKD are different according to different patients. The common clinical manifestations are as follows:
1, pain of waist or abdomen: it is the first symptom for most patients. It can be continuous or paroxysmal and this manifestation will get serious when patients are tired.
2, hematuria: it is usually one of the first symptoms for about half of the patients. It is intermittent and painless gross hematuria.
3, abdominal mass: it can be mostly felt at the midsection of both sides, and the size of the lumps is different.
4, there may be Hypertension companied with dizziness and headache symptoms.
5, proteinuria: when the cysts enlarge gradually, they will damage the renal inherent cells and lead to the damage of the function of renal cells and glomerulus. The protein will leak out from the glomerulus.
6, hypertension: with the development of this disease, many patients will have the symptom of hypertension. In return, the hypertension will accelerate the development of this disease.
Usually, patients can take routine examinations to find this disease, such as X-ray, B-Ultrasonic, nuclear magnetic resonance, CT and so on.
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