Kidney Transplant will be many patients’ with Polycystic Kidney Disease
choice when the kidney disease develops or after several years of dialysis.
Whether kidney transplant is a good choice or not, you can refers to the
following kidney transplant facts.
1. Polycystic Kidney Disease patients can avoid kidney transplant or dialysis
in fact. As long as the kidney cysts can be controlled well, kidney damages and
failure will be avoided successfully and kidney transplant will not be
necessary.
2. People with PKD also have the possibility to experience the kidney disease
again for the faulty genes can not be removed through kidney transplant.
3. Removal of native polycystic kidneys has resulted in a dramatic lowering
of high blood pressure. This lower blood pressure remains consistently normal
and is much easier to control. Energy levels seem to be tremendously improved
possibly due to the elimination of the weight of huge cystic organs. Polycystic
Kidneys can add 40 extra pounds.
4. Kidney Transplant can not affect the morbidity of PKD in receiver’s next
generation. In other words, your children still have at least 50% of chance to
inherit the kidney disease.
5. Patient with PKD who are in the waiting list is suggested to try other
treatment to protect the remaining kidney functions from losing. More than 50%
of patients are died with numerous kidney cysts before they get the order of
kidney transplant.
6. Dialysis or kidney transplant can not keep patients living a good life
forever. The key to live normally with PKD is to control the renal cysts well.
As long as the renal cysts can be shrinked to small enough, they will not hurt
kidney tissues and patients can avoid kidney failure finally.
7. Compared with other kidney disease patients, it is more complex for people
with PKD to adopt kidney transplant. Generally speaking, the lineal relatives
will be the best donators. However, as the PKD family has a very great chance to
carry faulty genes. PKD patients should avoid the donated kidneys from their
family members, but this will increase the body rejection to the donated
kidneys.
8. Herbs and Immunotherapy (does PKD reocur after Immunotherapy?) are new
development in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease which helps shrink renal cysts
and improve kidney functions naturally. Some patients get rid of dialysis and
avoid kidney transplant after the combined therapy.
Kidney Transplant can help Polycystic Kidney Disease patients live a better
live. However, waiting donated kidneys may make your tired in advance. Anyone
who are considering kidney transplant is suggested to take treatment to improve
kidney functions at the same time.
