Case Analysis of Polycystic Kidney Disease and Polycystic Liver Disease

Patient Name: Zhang Chunzhi

Gender: female

Age: 62 years old

Province: Handan, Hebei Province

Diagnosis: Polycystic Kidney Disease, Polycystic Liver Disease

Main cause: patient has suffered from Polycystic Kidney Disease and Polycystic Liver Disease for more than 20 years. Bilateral kidneys are both larger than 20cm. Patient herself can touch enlarged kidney. Urine amount: 800ml with light color. Serum creatinine: 872 umol/L. BUN: 34.2mmol/L.

Treatment: after 26-day treatment in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, patient showed great sensitivity on micronized Chinese Medicine. She said that kidneys she has touched are not as hard and large as before.

Test result: serum creatinine, 264umol/L; BUN: 12.3mmol/L. This result is really a great surprise for patient herself and her attending doctor.


Expert comments: PKD is one of common causes of Uremia. Continuously growing cysts can compress healthy nephron, causing nephron injury. Then Renal Insufficiency occurs. According to the above, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital adopts Micro-Chinese Medicine to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. Micro-Chinese Medicine can permeate into cysts directly, and fully play the role of activating blood and dredging channels, eliminating blood stasis and removing obstructions in blood vessel. All these are beneficial for kidney to excrete cyst fluid. Therefore, cyst internal pressure can be reduced and cyst size can be smaller with gradually recovered renal function. As a result, creatinine and urea nitrogen decrease.