PKD Complicated by Polycystic Liver Disease

As we all know, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) as a genetic kidney disease, it is also a kind of system disease and it has various complications. Among those complications, Polycystic Liver Disease (PLD) is one of the most common one. PLD means that there are more than 3 cysts in the liver and the cysts spread along the hepatic duct. Women are more likely to have this disease than men. The morbidity ranges from the 20 percent of 3-year-old children PKD patients to 75 percent of 70-year-old elder PKD patients. In addition this disease has the tendency of familial aggregation. And among the patients who have taken kidney transplant and lived more than 10 years, all of them have the complication of PLD.

PLD is caused by the abnormal hyperplasia of hepatic duct epithelium cells and mesenchymal, which will lead to the appearance of multiple cysts on the liver fibrous tissues.

The sizes of cysts may range much. The small ones can only be seen by microscope, while the big ones may occupy the whole abdomen. And these cysts will enlarge gradually. With the enlargement of cysts, they will press the surrounding liver tissues and damage the normal liver function.

At present, the abdominal B-Ultrasonic examination and CT scan can find the cysts internal haemorrhage condition. MRI is the reliable method to identify the hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic PLD.

Just as PKD, early find and treatment is very important for patients. And the most effective therapy is combining Chinese medicine with Western medicine. Our Shijiazhuang kidney Disease Hospital adopts the Micro-Chinese medicine Osmotherapy to cure this disease, instead of the method of surgical operation. The reason is: even if we can temporarily solve the problem of large cyst pressing renal parenchyma by adopting operations (LRCD or pumping fluid curing surgery), but we can’t solve the problem that small cyst will rapidly amplify which is caused by the decrease of press after the elimination of large cyst. So surgical operations are only expedients and they have their limits.

Our hospital takes advantage of the thought of curing inner disease by outer therapy of our traditional Chinese medicine and uses the effective Chinese medicine which is processed by advanced technique and especially for PKD and the cysts of lliver. After been superfinely flattered, the medicine with extremely strong bioactivity and targeting positioning ability can conduct treatment on the certain cyst lesion. This type of therapy possesses two curative effects, the first one is: expand the vessels on the vascular wall surround the cysts, accelerate the blood circulation of cyst wall, promote the permeability of cyst wall, promote the inner press decrease of cyst wall vessels, reverse the differential pressure caused by intravascular pressure higher than cysts pressure, accelerate the vessel sresoption of the cyst liquid. The second one is: the active substance of Micro-Chinese Medicine can restrain the secretion of cyst wall epithelial cell; prevent the continue expanding of bursa wall vessels and cyst. Through above therapeutic measures, the active substances of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy have improved the barrier conditions of vascular wall and cyst circulation, have softened the cyst wall, have increased the external permeability, and have restrained the secretion of cyst wall cells. And at last treat the disease fundamentally.


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