Is There A Chance That PLD Will Occur In PKD Patients

PLD (Polycystic Liver Disease) is one of the common complications of PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease), so people with PKD has a higher risk of getting PLD than those who hasn’t.

What’s Polycystic Liver Disease?

Polycystic liver disease is a frequent external manifestation of PKD, especially ADPKD (Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease). It describes that more hat 3 cysts appear in liver and they spread into hepatic duct. The typical symptoms of PLD include early satiety, fullness, distension, bloating, dyspepsia, heartburn, nausea etc.

How does PKD get PLD involved?

In most cases, liver cysts tend to appear later than renal cysts. According to clinical practice, it is demonstrated that patients with PKD increases the rate of PLD during advancing age. In other words, people with PKD are rare to develop into PLD in their young age. However, more than 20% of them suffer from liver cysts at their 30s.

Women have a higher rate to suffer from PLD than men and the cysts are more complex and larger in size and number when it happens in woman, compared with men.

How to prevent PKD developing into PLD?

● Have a regular monitor on your liver. When you feel some discomforts in liver, please let your doctor know.

● Control your PKD. Polycystic kidneys are the underlying cause of liver cysts. Take measures on renal medical condition.

Take natural herbs to shrink your renal cysts, meantime, herbs can improve renal functions.

Take surgical removal into consider, if there are many large cysts in your kidneys. Surgery can remove your renal cysts immediately and save patients from emergency. However, conjunctive therapies aiming at stopping the growth of cysts should be added later on, for surgery only can not discontinue the further progressing of PKD.

Although most patients with PKD report no liver symptoms, some experience chronic manifestations related to progressive increase of the polycystic liver. Ultimately, disability may severely affect their quality of life. In addition, a few develop acute complications that follow a life-threatening course.


Patients with PKD are suggested to pay a close attention on emergence of PLD and take medical measures early to prevent the further damage in liver. If you are suffering from PKD, or its complications, such as PLD, high blood pressure, urinary tract infections, kidney stones, you can mail to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com for more health guidelines.