As we all know, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of hereditary
kidney disease. There usually are several members can get this disease in the
same family. Most patients may have the question that why I get this disease and
how I get it. Generally, if one of the parents has this disease, each of their
children may have possibility of 50% of getting this disease and 75% if both
parents have this disease. Seldom patients get this disease by gene
mutation.
Normally, this disease occurs on patients at the age about 30 easily.
Presently, it has been found that both children and adults can have PKD and this
tendency becomes more and more obvious.
In the early stage, very few symptoms can be found when the cysts are still
small. This is also the reason why patients do not pay enough attention on it at
the beginning. Some sensitive patients may feel waist pain in this period.
With cysts growing, they begin to compress kidney gradually and renal
ischemia and anoxia appear due to mechanical pressure from cysts. Then related
symptoms like serious pain, proteinuria, blood urine, kidney enlargement also
appears with pressure growing. When patients begin to notice these symptoms at
this moment, kidney has already been injured into some serious degree.
What’s more, besides these symptoms, PKD can also cause serious complications
like Hypertension, Anemia, Polycystic Liver Disease, Polycystic Pancreas
Disease, and Cyst Calcification and so on. If this disease can not be controlled
effectively in time, it will aggravate into Renal Failure or Uremia and patients
have to accept Dialysis or wait for Kidney Transplant.
The above is a brief introduction of PKD. All PKD patients should have high
attention on this disease. They should be aware of tiny signs of this disease in
their daily life once there is PKD patient in their family. If you need more
information about this disease, please consult us online for free or email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.
