Do You Know: Polycystic Kidney Disease Can Cause Many Complications

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a common genetic disease. If patients with PKD can not get timely treatment, it will cause a lot of complications. Therefore, we can say that PKD is not simply a kidney disease but is a generalized disease. It can cause the following complications.

1. Cyst infection

As the cysts enlarge, they are very likely to rupture. In that case, the ruptured cyst can cause serious infection. When patients have infection, they will have fever and feel violent pain in their kidney.

2. Hypertension

The enlarged cysts can cause oppression to kidney thus causing the abnormal secretion of renin thus causing hypertension. In return, hypertension can aggravate the damage to renal function. Therefore, it is very important for patients to keep blood pressure within the normal level.

3. Kidney stone

As patients’ kidney can not discharge the metabolin in the body, amount of oxalic acid will accumulate in body. This is a cause of kidney stone. Another cause is that the patients have too much food that contains purine. The end product of purine is uric acid that can make the carbonite in urine to deposite in kidney thus forming kidney stone.

4. Cysts in other organs

According to some researches, among the middle-aged patients with PKD, about half of them are accompanied with polycystic liver. Among patients above 60 years old, the incidence of polycystic liver can reach about 70%. In addition, some patients also have cysts in pancreas and ovary.


In order to prevent the disease development, the patients should receive effective treatment as early so possible. If you want to know more about PKD and its therapy, please consult us on line or email us kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.


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