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Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) Diagnosis

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a chronic and progressive disease, therefore an early and accurate diagnosis is the crucial premise for effective treatments.

What to Do If Diagnosed with PKD

What to Do If Diagnosed with PKD

If you are diagnosed with PKD, what should you do then? Firstly, you should know that PKD is a disease which can inherit by children and can not be cured yet. So is this meaning we can do nothing about PKD? No, we can control it to prevent...Read More

What Does It Mean When You Have Stage 2 PKD

What Does It Mean When You Have Stage 2 PKD

PKD is a kind of chronic kidney disease (CKD). According to GFR, CKD is classified into 5 stages. Stage 2 means your GFR ranges from 60 to 89. What does it mean when you have stage 2 PKD? From the declined GFR, we can see that your kidney f...Read More

How Can I Tell if My PKD Is Progressing

How Can I Tell if My PKD Is Progressing

PKD is a generic kidney disease, which can pass down from generation to generation. In the early stage of PKD, there are hardly symptoms so that you can not notice its progression. But with the progression of PKD, more and more symptoms app...Read More

Common Diagnosis for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Common Diagnosis for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary and chronically progressive renal disorders and patients need to have life-long struggle and combat with it. We all know that early diagnosis and treatment is very necessary for all chronic diseases...Read More

Early Diagnosis For Polycystic Kidney Disease

Early Diagnosis For Polycystic Kidney Disease

We all know that polycystic kidney disease is a congenital and hereditary renal disease and it has the feature of familial aggregation, therefore some patients know that they have the disease even though they have no symptoms at all because...Read More

Five Developing Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Five Developing Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney disorder which is characterized by clusters of fluid-filled sacs on both sides of the kidneys. The cysts can get enlarged over periods of time, and in this process the patients can experience he...Read More

How to Diagnose Polycystic Kidney Disease

How to Diagnose Polycystic Kidney Disease

Before making a Polycystic Kidney Disease diagnosis, doctors usually ask a number of questions like what are your present symptoms and Do you have PKD history. Also, patients are asked to perform a physical exam and some kidney related test...Read More