Progressive Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of genetic kidney disease. It is acknowledged that the development of PKD can be divided into five stages.
Emergence stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease
As PKD is inheritable, patients usually be born with cysts, but the cysts are too small to be easily discovered. In most cases, the cysts are difficult to be found before the patients are 20 years old. So if you have a relative who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, you should go to hospital for a careful examination as early as possible. Once cysts are discovered, you need pay attention to their growth.
Growing stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease
When patients are during 30 to 40 years old, cysts will have a faster growth. At this period, there is no effective treatment in western medicine, which only takes symptomatic treatment. However, some traditional Chinese Medicine can stop or delay the growing of cysts by promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. In this period, traditional Chinese medicine can play a key role in prolonging patients’ life.
In patients’ forties, cysts will have a further enlargement. Cysts of this period are over 4cm but have no diabrosis. A lot of clinical symptoms will appear, such as lumbago, proteinuria, hematuria, and high blood pressure. This is a crucial period for treatment through combing traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. Chinese medicine can wipe off the cystic fluid and make cysts shrink.
Diabrosis stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease
If cysts continue to grow, they may burst under some influence of external causes. In such conditions, patients need to be hospitalized immediately. Pay attention to the control of infection, as well as avoid ichorrhemia and acute deterioration of renal function.
Uremia stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease
This stage usually need peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis, as renal function is seriously damaged. In this period, patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease lose most of their renal function.
If you are diagnosed as Polycystic Kidney Disease, you need pay close attention to the progress of your disease and take effective treatment as early as possible, in order to prevent it from developing into Uremia.
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