Routine Treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of terrible hereditary disease. It causes damage to renal parenchyma, and then renal function abnormality happens. When kidney lost their function of eliminating body wastes, Uremia which is a threat to human life appears due to toxin accumulation in human body.

Many treatments can be used to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. Among these treatment methods, Western Medicine treatment is an adjutant treatment of operation. As for Western Medicine Treatment, it usually treats the disease starting with treating symptoms. For example, relevant antibiotics are used to deal with Haematuria and complicated infection; hypotensor is taken to reduce High Blood Pressure and related medicines are used to decrease creatinine and urea nitrogen.

Some routine treatments of Polycystic Kidney Disease can be listed as follows:
Firstly, dialysis and Kidney Transplantation. Dialysis, especially Hemodialysis, should be taken timely if illness condition develops into End Stage Renal Failure. Surviving rate of Kidney Transplantation is some equal to other operation, but due to complicated disease, problem of post-operation can be difficult to solve, which can affect operative effect.

Secondly, operation. Operation is a normal treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease, with the purpose of removing big cysts by surgical operation. With big cysts being removed, more space is left for smaller cysts. When smaller cysts grow up, they can compress kidney again. This treatment method can not recover Polycystic Kidney Disease. What’s more, it brings new injury to patients’ body and spirit. Symptoms of most PKD patients appear again about 6 months after operation, and illness condition can be worse than before with rapid aggravated renal function.

Thirdly, infections that happen to renal parenchyma and inner cyst are main complications of PKD, and combined complication of antibiotic is used to deal with them.


Fourthly, treating High Blood Pressure. Activation of renal ischemia and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is main reason of High Blood Pressure, and hypotensor is taken on this basis.