Why Will Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients Need Kidney Transplant

We all know that cysts in kidneys of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients keep enlarging continuously due to the gene problem, which is the main reason of the aggravation of this disease. Actually, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients usually do not need Kidney Transplant if the disease can be controlled before kidneys are totally damaged. However, there are still so many people accepting this surgical operation. Why, besides the nature aggravation of this disease, it there any other reasons?

Yes, there is another reason and frankly speaking, this reason is a very important factor that leads to Kidney Transplant. This factor is the patients themselves. It was greatly their attitude to this disease that leads to this consequence. Why I would say like this? We all know this disease can not be cured completely because it is caused by gene problem. For this reason, most of the patients give up treatment when they are in the early stage of this disease. They just wait for Dialysis or Kidney Transplant when their disease aggravates into Renal Failure Stage. Actually, if this disease can be controlled well in the early stage before kidney function decline when the cysts are still small, these cysts may have the possibility of stopping enlarging so that this disease will not progress further. As a result, patients do not need dialysis or transplant in the future. Even for some patients who have already in the end stage of this disease, if their kidneys are not totally damaged, there are still chance for them to avoid dialysis or Kidney Transplant. But if the disease can not be controlled before kidneys are totally damaged, Dialysis and Kidney Transplant are inevitable. There are also some patients who have found a treatment that may control their disease giving up such treatment just because they do not know this treatment too much and they want to wait for some proof that can show the effectiveness of such treatment. They even do not give them a chance to try though the treatment is natural and safe. Yes, they are right and their choice is also correct. When we are facing a strange treatment, all of us would like to wait for some proof and then we will have a try. We can wait for some evidence or proof patiently, but how about the disease. It is existing in our body and progressing all the time. It will not stop aggravating even we are on the waiting for the treatment. So if there is a chance, why we not have a try.


Of course, this does not mean accept new treatment blindly. We must have a deep research or a field trip on this treatment and we must be sure that the treatment will not do harm to our body, and then we can decide whether to accept such treatment or not. Only if it is effective, no matter it is inside or outside country, we should have a try. It is our hope for life.