How Long Can People Live with Polycystic Kidney Disease

How long can people live with Polycystic Kidney Disease? This question is often asked by Polycystic Kidney Disease since then they knew that they are having this disease, because they know that this disease can not be cured due to the gene problem. So the most concerned question for them is that how long they can live with this disease.

Actually, most of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients feel really depressed when they were told they are having this disease. No treatment is offered to them until their disease progresses to kidney failure stage. For this reason, most of patients can imagine their future life clearly: they live normally when the disease is in the early stage and wait for dialysis or transplant until the disease aggravates to end stage of kidney failure. Some of them may be on the list of waiting for transplant for several years and some may even die from this disease. So here it is not difficult to understand that why Polycystic Kidney Disease patients will ask this question so frequently.


Actually, there is not no treatment for this disease. In most countries, hospitals do not offer treatment to Polycystic Kidney Disease because they think gene problem can not be changed, so the only way for Polycystic Kidney Disease is to wait, wait for this disease further aggravation. However, this disease can be treated, especially in early stage, even though we can not change gene problem. We all know that epithelial cells of renal tubule will turn to cyst wall epithelial cells under the action of gene, and then these epithelial cells will have the function of secreting cyst fluids, which is the main reason of cyst enlargement. So if we can inhibit the activity of cyst wall activity, they will secret less or even no cyst fluid so that the cyst will not enlarge further. As for patients who are in middle stage or late stage of this disease, Immunotherapy can be used to repair the kidney damage caused by these cysts. If we can repair damaged kidney on the basis of protecting healthy part of kidney, patients’ living quality can also be improved greatly. If you want to talk more about this, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us online.