Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) affects nearly 1-in-1,000 Americans. Through
the ages, PKD can progress into End Stage of Renal Failure and patients become
the candidate of Kidney Transplant. At that moment, most of receivers are
wondering whether PKD reoccur after kidney transplant.
As for this question, it’s hard to find much written materials as reference.
Even though we try to get the answer from the limited information, no exact
answer is find out, except some examples. From the examples, we find someone do
experience renal cysts again after kidney transplant while some others do
not.
As for this result, some researchers surmise that PKD patients might have a
great chance to get relapse for faulty genes can not be removed after
transplant. As PKD doesn’t reoccur in some cases, they explain that the
receivers pass away before PKD attack them again.
Will you get a relapse after kidney transplant? Nobody can not make a
promise. However, there are some risks that you have to know, so as to take
necessary preventions before transplant.
The risks for PKD patients to take transplant include rejection of the new
kidney, severe infection, bleeding, reaction to the anesthesia used for surgery
and failure of the donor kidney. Amongst them, the most dangerous risk is
regarded rejection. In order to restrict it, every patients need to take
immunosuppressants everyday. However, according to a peer-reviewed journal of
the American Cancer Society, patients who take immunosuppressants after organ
transplant would be assumed to be at nearly four times to develop cancers.
In addition, 6% of people on waiting lists for kidney transplant die each
year. Thereby, we suggest that PKD patients on waiting list should also adopt
other conservative treatments to alleviate polycystic kidney disease instead of
waiting for donated kidneys only. Holistic therapies can help delaying the
progress of PKD and even shrinking renal cysts naturally, such as acupuncture,
Chinese herbs, medicated bath etc. If you need more help, you can mail to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com
