Why Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients Get Hypertension

In Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), countless cysts with different sizes spread over renal cortex and medulla. Cysts occupy much more space than renal parenchyma. Kidney is in grapelike shape with obvious enlargement.

With illness condition developing, most PKD patients get Hypertension and male patients are more obvious than female patients. The level of blood pressure is highly related with kidney size, cyst number and cyst size. The main reason of Hypertension is cysts compressing. Growing and increasing cysts compress some renal blood vessels, which can reduce local blood flow. When renal receptor get this information, it will reflexly give an order of secreting more rennin, and then angiotensin concentration increases, which make blood vessel shrink, increasing blood pressure. Hypertension and renal injury can aggravate each other. Generally, once PKD patients get Hypertension, it means that their renal function is about to be injured or has already been injured. Therefore, PKD patients should pay high attention on controlling blood pressure.

Once Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients have symptoms of Nephrotic Hypertension, they should accept treatment actively instead of self-medication. If PKD patients take some nephrotoxic medicine to reduce blood pressure unconsciously, their illness condition can aggravate rapidly, or even death can be caused. So patients should take medicine under doctors’ advice.

Nephrotic Hypertension caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is different from primary Hypertension. As for Hypertension caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease, the key of treating Hypertension is to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease through methods of reducing cystic pressure on kidney and renal parenchyma as well as delaying or blocking Renal Fibrosis. Only by this way, Hypertension can be treated radically.


Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) starting with shrinking cysts, which can prevent renal tissue being damaged from its root cause. With active substances of Chinese Medicine playing their role, they can reduce cystic pressure on surrounding renal tissue, relieve renal ischemia and anoxia as well as delay the process of Renal Fibrosis. Though these methods, the occurrence of Hypertension can be delayed. Besides, Micro-Chinese Medicine can also degrade Extracellular Matrix and immune complex, provide necessary substances to kidney and repair kidney structure. Once injured kidney is recovered, Polycystic Kidney Disease can be relieved and Hypertension caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease can also be relieved.