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Creatinine 4.7, no Symptoms of CKD, Low Hemoglobin, can it be Cured

Creatinine 4.7, no Symptoms of CKD, Low Hemoglobin, can it be Cured

Your mother's creatinine is very high. Normal range of creatinine in women is 0.6 to 1.2, but now your mother’s creatinine has been 4.7, which suggests that kidney function as declined for at least over fifty percent. ...Read More

Is Creatinine 2.3 the Starting Stage of Kidney Disease

Is Creatinine 2.3 the Starting Stage of Kidney Disease

If your creatinine is 2.3, I am sorry that your kidney disease is not in the early stage. It is in the late stage 3 or even stage 4 of chronic kidney disease. Please confirm this problem with your doctor....Read More

ADPKD Pregnancy, Genetic Risk, Proper Diets

ADPKD Pregnancy, Genetic Risk, Proper Diets

From what you have described above, I make a preliminary diagnosis that your family has the hereditary kidney disease---ADPKD. It is autosomal dominant kidney disease which is characterized by multiple fluid-filled cysts in bilateral kidneys...Read More

PKD, 65 Years Old, Creatinine 125

PKD, 65 Years Old, Creatinine 125

Your creatinine level was 125. It is still in normal range, but at the highest limit. Generally patients with PKD will have high blood pressure in 30s, high creatinine level in 40s, and kidney failure in 50s....Read More

How to Estimate the Percentage of Damaged Islet Cell

How to Estimate the Percentage of Damaged Islet Cell

There are three kinds of islet cells, that is β cells, α cells, and D cells. β cells occupy 60%-80% of islet cells. They can secrete insulin and lower the blood sugar. C-peptide is also secreted by β cells and if there is one unit insuli...Read More

48 Years Old, PKD, Small Bumps Under the Stomach

48 Years Old, PKD, Small Bumps Under the Stomach

I am a 48 years old female with PKD. I have recently noticed small bumps under the skin all over my stomache. Is this related?...Read More

Polycystic Kidney Disease, Alcohol, Cyst Enlargement

Polycystic Kidney Disease, Alcohol, Cyst Enlargement

I have polycystic kidney disease and I inherited it from my mother and it is ADPKD. I have found it since I was 32 and I am now 53 years old. The doctor told me there is no cure for it at present and it will in the end progress into end stag...Read More

Can People with PKD do Sports

Can People with PKD do Sports

I have PKD and now 39 years old, the largest cyst in kidney is 68mm, I want to know are sports allowed for my condition?...Read More