As a genetic kidney disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease can be cured
completely by present treatment methods. So what patients should do is to have a
general idea about present treatment and choose the best one from these
treatments. Generally, both Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine can be used to
treatment this disease
In western medicine treatment, surgical operations are commonly used to
remove these big cysts. Firstly, Cyst Decortication: it can reduce the pressure
on kidney tissue caused by cysts and prevent majority remained nephrons being
further compressed and damaged, which can relieve the condition of renal
ischemia and anoxia. Through this way, part of nephrons can be saved, which can
delay the process of this disease. The key of a successful operation is to take
this operation as early as possible. Cysts, including small cysts and cysts
located in deep kidney, must be decorticated completely. Both kidneys should be
operated, with interval period of more than half year during the two operations.
If End Stage PKD patients who get renal function injury are suffering from
Azotemia or Uremia, no matter they get High Blood Pressure or not, Cyst
Decortication has little effect at this moment. Contrarily, this operation can
worsen illness condition. Besides, due to gene problem, cysts still continue
enlarging, so most patients may need the second or third time operation.
Secondly, Dialysis or Kidney Transplant: once this disease progresses into End
Stage Renal Failure, Dialysis or kidney transplant should be considered.
Hemodialysis is the first choice due to enlarged kidneys which nearly occupy the
whole abdomen.
Presently, Chinese Medicine adopts conventional treatment, orally Chinese
Medicine, to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease, which has gained a good effect.
Based on the opinion of wholism and choosing treatment according to syndrome
differentiation, Chinese Medicine considers that PKD is the result of
interaction of both internal factors and external factors. Though Chinese
Medicine can not solve gene problem presently, the conventional effect of it is
much more advanced than Western Medicine, and it has no side effect and very few
recurrence. While Traditional Chinese Medicine still has some disadvantages like
slow effect period and low medicine utilization as well as bad taste.
From the above, it can be found that both western medicine treatment and
traditional Chinese medicine have their own advantages and disadvantages in
treating Polycystic Kidney Disease. Nowadays, based on traditional Chinese
treatment, a new treatment called Micro-Chinese Medicine has been applied in
clinical practice. It has covers the disadvantages of traditional Chinese
medicine. If you need more information about related treatment, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us online.
