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Five Developing Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2012-10-07 18:01

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 hematuria, proteinuria, high blood pressure, etc. The onset of PKD is usually at one’s 30s. Developing stages of PKD is explained in this passage so as to help you understand the disease better.

There are five clinical developing stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease:

1. Emergence period It is a kind of genetic disease , so the patients had cysts when they were born , as the cysts were small so it is difficult to be checked out before 20 years old .

2. Growth period . The cysts will grow fast when the patients are 30-40 years old and in some western countries there is no any way to deal with them and they think the cysts need not be treated , however the aggressive treatment is very important , the objective of treatment is to keep cyst from growing or delay its growing speed , to prolong the patients life by using Micro-Chinese medicine , it can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis .

3. Swelling.When the patients are over 40 years old, cysts will grow bigger when the cyst is more than 4 cm more clinical symptoms will appear , such as back pain , albuminuria , high creatinine level , elevated blood pressure , hematuresis , etc . This stage is the critical stage , if it can be treated well the patients renal function can be recovered also or it will cause renal failure quickly .

4. Burst stage. if the cyst keeps growing in some external cause it will burst which can cause infection and ichorrhemia and acute renal failure .

5. Uremia .the patients have to choose dialysis or kidney transplant to protect their renal function what’s worse their renal function can’t be recovered.

If PKD can't been treated well timely, it will be get renal failure quickly. Daily nursing care and proper management of the disease is essential to slow down deterioration of the disease.


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