Will the New Kidney Get Cyst Again After a Kidney Transplant in PKD

2014-04-04 07:04

Question: I am a PKD patient which has been found for many years, now my kidneys have been damaged severely. My doctor asked me to have a kidney transplant, but I am wondering whether it will cause PKD again with the new kidney. Can you tell me if a PKD patient gets a new kidney, will I at risk of acquiring the disease with this new kidney?

Answer: I get the question from our mail box, pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. And I hope my answer will be helpful for you.

First, I will tell you if you get a kidney transplant, the chance of get the same disease of PKD is very small. As we know, PKD is a dominant genetic disease, and the main cause is because of the congenital dysplasia of kidney tubules, which leads to the urine difficult to excrete, and cause urine cysts. When the enlargement of kidney cysts cause kidney failure, the kidney function will to work. In this condition, patients will consider to have a kidney transplant. In addition, if transplanted kidney has no genetic of PKD, people will not get PKD again.

However, to have a kidney transplant, PKD patients will also have some risks that they need to consider before.

1. Kidney source

If patients want to have kidney transplant, they need to wait for a healthy kidney, and the time will be difficult. Because there are so many kidney disease patients wait for a suitable kidney.

2. Money

The kidney transplant will cost lots of money. Besides, if PKD patients are lucky enough to get a successful kidney transplant, they also need to take specific medicines to keep the normal work of their kidneys. And the medicines are also expensive.

3. Rejection reaction

Not all the kidney transplant will be successful, there are also many cases of unsuccessful kidney transplant, which can cause severe damage to patients.

Above are the common factors that PKD patients need to consider if they want to have a kidney transplant. Except kidney transplant, PKD patients also have some other alternative treatment to remedy their disease and control their illness condition from deterioration. If you want to get more information about the detailed treatment, you can leave a message below, we will answer you within 24 hours.

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