Can Pregnancy Cause Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Most married women ask doctors the question that whether pregnancy can cause Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) or not. Clinically, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of genetic disease. It can be divided into two types: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ACPKD), and the former is more common. ADPKD is a kind of autosomal dominant inheritance, having the characteristics of familial aggression and equal incidence to both male and female. Many factors can cause Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). For this reason, patients should pay more attention on their daily life in order to prevent this disease happening.

Generally, influence on Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients caused by pregnancy mainly depends on the condition of renal function. Tough there is no exact evidence than can prove that pregnancy can accelerate illness condition development, worse prognosis can be found among patients who are pregnant for several times with complicated High Blood Pressure. About one fourth PKD patients can get High Blood Pressure or their origin High Blood Pressure can be aggravated during the process of pregnancy. Therefore, multiple pregnancy can play a vicious role in prognosis of PKD patients, and this condition only refers to patients who still have normal renal function. While pregnant patients whose renal function is not normal get much more ganger from pregnancy.