Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease by Western Medicine

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a congenital kidney disease, and the cysts will enlarge with the increase of ages. With the continuous enlargement of the cysts, they will bring damage to the renal tissues and renal function because of the pressure of cysts and other complications. Then how can we treat the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease?

All the treatment of this disease should aim at the contraction of the cysts on the basis of protecting renal tissues and renal function. As for the treatment of this disease, the western medicine usually adopts surgeries or operations, such as laparoscopic renal cyst decorbicatiou (LRCD), pumping fluid hardening operation and the kidney transplant.

As for the surgeries of laparoscopic renal cyst decorbicatiou and pumping fluid hardening operation, the main mechanism of them is that adopt surgeries to eliminate the liquid out of the cysts and then harden the cysts to prevent the enlargement of the cysts. However, we must keep in mind that the surgeries can just cope with the larger cysts and when the cysts are small, the surgeries are not suitable. Therefore, the patients can just wait for that the cysts enlarge to a certain level then adopt surgeries, but during this progression, the enlargement of the cysts may damage the renal cells and renal function. What’s more, after the surgeries of the larger cysts, the surrounding small cysts will grow rapidly for the increase of the space and the decrease of pressure. Then the patients will be faced with the same problem. So the patients have to adopt surgeries repeatedly to cope with the cysts. During this process, the surgeries may injure the kidney.


As for the kidney transplant, on one hand, it is not easy to find a matched kidney for the patients. On the other hand, after the kidney transplant, most patients suffer from the transplant reaction and they have to take medicines for the whole life. What’s more, after about ten years about the kidney transplant, the kidney function will gradually decline and then the patients have to be faced with more problems.