Can Kidney Transplant Solve PKD

Can kidney transplant solve Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)? Kidney Transplant is always considered as the last choice for people with completely failed kidney. In many cases, kidney transplant helps kidney failure patients to fulfill their dream of living a life without dialysis. This medical method indeed helps dialysis patients, but for people with PKD, especially these with mild illness condition, it is very likely for them to avoid kidney transplant.

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a chronic kidney problem which pass down from generation to generation because of its hereditary characteristic. PKD progresses with the increase of kidney cysts which usually enlarge over time and therefore oppress surrounding kidney tissues. To work normally, our renal intrinsic cells need enough oxygen and nutrition. However, once they are oppressed by kidney cysts, they can not get the nutrition, as a result of which, they fail to display function normally. Gradually, these cells may lose their ability to work. Therefore, the best method to stop Polycystic Kidney Disease from progressing is to protect healthy kidney cells from being damaged by cysts. Kidney cysts oppress surrounding kidney tissues when they become large. Therefore, as long as we shrink kidney cysts and stop them from enlarging, further kidney damages will be avoided and also kidney transplant will be avoided.

Many methods can be used to deal with cysts in kidney. But for people with PKD, due to the great number of cysts, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will be their best choice. Different from kidney transplant, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is not a surgery and it causes no pain. While receiving this treatment, what patients need to do is to lie on the bed for 40 minutes with packaged micro-Chinese medicines under their back. With the help of permeameter, effective ingredients in medicines permeate into kidney lesion location along with meridian, so as to achieve the purpose of improving kidney condition and shrinking kidney cysts. This therapy shrinks kidney cysts by making pressure differences. We know fluids flow toward the side with the low pressure. Therefore, as long as pressure inside the cyst decreases to the level that lower than that inside the cyst, cystic fluids ooze naturally.

Although kidney transplant is helpful for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, it is not the best solution as there are so many kidney failure patients on the waiting list and it is hard for patients to find a matched kidney. To prevent kidney failure and kidney transplant, a timely diagnosis and treatment for PKD is of great importance. In this light, regularly physical examination for these with parents suffering from Polycystic Kidney Disease is very necessary.