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Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) Symptoms & Complications

PKD is characterized by multiple cysts in kidneys and with the enlargement and increase of the cysts there will be a series of symptoms and complications.

Blood in Urine Caused by PKD

Blood in Urine Caused by PKD

The clinical manifestations of PKD include pains, progressive growth and enlargement of cysts and kidneys, abdominal masses, high blood pressure, blood in urine, protein in urine and renal damages. Why PKD will cause blood in urine and can...Read More

Flank Pains in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Flank Pains in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Why people with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) experience flank pains? How to alleviate the pains? High blood pressure, blood in urine and chronic flank or waist pains are common clinical manifestations of Polycystic Kidney Disease. You wi...Read More

Back Pain and Abdominal Pain - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Back Pain and Abdominal Pain - Polycystic Kidney Disease

PKD patients will suffer from pains and discomforts. The pains in back, abdomen and flank are the most common ones. In most cases patients can have oppressing feelings or dull pains in back and belly. The pain will become worse after physic...Read More

Hematuria (Blood Urine) - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Hematuria (Blood Urine) - Polycystic Kidney Disease

There are more than 90% patients have cyst bleeding or gross hematuria. In most cases it is spontaneous or after strenuous exercises or physical traumas. The causes of blood in urine mainly include rupture of the blood vessels, kidney stone...Read More

Kidney Enlargement - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Kidney Enlargement - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Kidney is the vital organ of human being and its basic function is to produce urine during which metabolic wastes and toxins will be discharged while water and other useful materials will be re-absorbed. The normal kidney size: length is ab...Read More

Renal Impairment - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Renal Impairment - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Between the age of 40 to 60,the renal functions of most patients can remain normal even the cysts are growing continuously. In the early stage, the renal impairment usually manifests itself as decline of the renal concentrating function. Th...Read More

Hypertension - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Hypertension - Polycystic Kidney Disease

Hypertension is one of the early symptoms of adult PKD. Even before the kidney functions begin to decline, patients will have hypertension. There are 50% patients have blood pressure higher than 140/90mmHg when their kidney functions are st...Read More

Proteinuria (Bubble urine) - Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Proteinuria (Bubble urine) - Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Due to the filtration of the glomeruli and the re-absorption of the renal tubules, under normal circumstances, the protein in urine is small amount (150mg/d) and the protein qualitative check is negative. When the protein in urine excess 15...Read More