Many people may take Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and Renal Cysts
(frequently recurring renal cysts) as the same kind of disease. However, they
are quite different with each other in various ways and it’s not hard to
distinguish them from one another. We can differentiate the two kinds of
diseases from the following aspects:
1. Pathogenesis and Causes
Polycystic Kidney Disease belongs to autosomal inherited disease, while Renal
Cysts can be congenital or caused by trauma, inflammation, or tumour and so
on.
2. Family History
Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease may have similar relatives in their
families, while the same cases can seldom be found in Renal Cyst sufferers.
3. Contents in the Cysts
The cysts of Polycystic Kidney Disease contain urine inside, but the content
inside frequently occurring renal cysts is body liquid, which is similar to
plasma and contains things such as erythrocytes.
4. Complications and Damages
Symptoms such as hematuria, hypertension, swelling, renal insufficiency and
Uremia may be found in Polycystic Kidney Disease, but hypertension and renal
insufficiency are not commonly seen in Renal Cysts.
5. Preventions
As for Polycystic Kidney Diesaese, Cysts can be prevented from developing and
symptoms can be diminished; renal cysts can not only be controlled but also be
contracted, and smaller ones can be diminished.
Renal Cyst is a rather common kidney abnormality and may mostly occur in
those more than 50 years old. At its early stage, there exist no damages or
symptoms, for which it is not necessary to receive treatment. However, when
there are the symptoms of urinary infections such as waist distending pain,
frequency of micturition, urgency of urination, odynuria, and hematuria are
found, the cyst may have already been augmented with the diameter of more than 5
cm.
Traditional therapeutic methods include needle penetration and open surgery.
The former works by penetrating into the cyst through skin with long puncture
needle so as to extract cyst liquid, which avoids pain during operation but
easily reoccurs after puncture, while the latter brings greater damage and
leaves operation scars in the waist with low recurrence rate.
At present, however, we mainly adopt Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and
Immunotherapy to shrink the cysts and repair the damaged kidney cells, by which
we can cope with the cysts without surgeries or operations.
