In Saudi Arabia, Polycystic Kidney Disease is also a common kidney disease.
According a research, more than 50.000 people in Saudi Arabia suffers from
serious Polycystic Kidney Disease. What are the treatments of Polycystic Kidney
Disease in Saudi Arabia?
Surgery.
Surgery is the common choice for most PKD patients who need to remove the
larger cysts out from the kidneys. Usually, your doctor will use a long thin
needle to insert through your skin and drain the cyst fluids out.
However, surgery easily leads to the relapse of renal cysts. When the larger
cysts are removed, the smaller ones will get more space to grow up.
Kidney Transplant.
When Polycystic Kidney Disease progresses into Kidney Failure, kidney
transplant will be choice for patients. There are there hospitals for kidney
transplant in Saudi Arabia: Dr. Erfan and Bagedo Hospital, Saad Specialist
Hospital and King Faisal Specialist Hospital.
The problem is that the donated kidneys can not meet the need of kidney
disease patients in Saudi Arabia, which is just like all other countries. This
is why many PKD patients die before they get a donated kidney.
Another problem is that many Saudi Arabian patients experience the relapse of
renal cysts again after the kidney transplant. Doctors explain that the relapse
is related to the faulty genes of PKD.
Dialysis.
Like many other countries, dialysis is also widely used in kidney disease,
including Polycystic Kidney Disease, treatment in Saudi Arabia. The first
dialysis unit in Saudi Arabia was established in 1971; thereafter, rapid
advances have been made in the field of renal replacement therapy. At the end of
2002, there were 144 centers offering dialysis to about 7390 patients.
Dialysis successfully makes many dying patients alive. However, it also
brings too much adverse effects, which leads the patient to live a poor quality
life. As dialysis takes no effects on the cysts in polycystic kidneys, many
patients on dialysis suffer from the pain from both dialysis and deteriorated
polycystic kidney disease.
Surgery, kidney transplant and dialysis alleviate the PKD patients from Saudi
Arabia. However, each of them fail to take effects on the underlying kidney
disease—shrink the renal cysts and avoid the relapse.
In fact, there are many other treatments, such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Immunotherapy and immunotherapy, which can shrink renal cyst
naturally and stop the growth of renal cysts. The combination of these therapies
especially can make a great improvement for PKD patients.
Once you are diagnosed with PKD, please never give up. Even though you are
told that there is no cure for PKD, you still can be encouraged with so many
cases who live normally with PKD.
