Can Surgery Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Surgery is a common therapy to remove the big cysts for the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). It can relive the patients’ sufferings temporarily. However, can surgery treat the disease effectively?

The answer is definitely NO. Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is featured with numerous cysts usually on bilateral kidneys. Surgery can not remove the big cysts, but it can not remove the small ones or those in the deep parts of kidneys. Moreover, once the enlarged cysts are removed, the left small ones will grow at a faster speed for more growth space. These new enlarged cysts will cause back pain, high blood pressure etc again. At that time, they have to perfume a surgery again. However, it is not possible to remove all of the cysts in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) with surgery. What’s worse, every surgery can bring enormous trauma to kidneys and cause renal function to decline at a fast speed. Therefore, surgery is generally not suggested to the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

At present, although there is no a cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), the patients can stop the disease progression to avoid Renal Failure. Chinese herb medicine plays a very important role in the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

With age, the number and size of cysts keep increasing continuously. As a result, the lining cells of cysts secrete more and more cystic fluid thus enlarging cysts persistently. In clinic, the patients will present high blood pressure, back pain etc. Therefore, stopping the secretion of cystic fluid and promoting its reabsorption by the lining cells is the key in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

Chinese herbal medicines, on one hand, they can dilate the systemic blood vessels and promote the discharging of the metabolic wastes in blood. It can relive the renal ischemia and anoxia to some extent.

On the other hand, they can promote the reabsorption of cystic fluid by the lining cysts. Therefore, it can shrink the cysts gradually.


In this way, the cysts will stop enlarge and shrink gradually so as to stopping the further progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).