Creatinine 2.2 and High Blood Pressure with PKD: What Is the Possible Treatment and Cost

2014-06-02 08:41

Question: My husband is 41 years old and has polycystic kidney of length 18 - 20 cm and suffering from high blood pressure from the age of about 26. Now his creatinine is about 2.2 for last six months. What is the possible treatment and cost?

Answer: Generally speaking, patients with PKD will have high blood pressure in 30s, high serum creatinine in 40s and kidney failure in 50s. Your husband’s medical condition is similar to this regularity. If he can not bring the his pathogenetic condition under control, kidney failure will occur several years later. Now he is still in the early stage of PKD. It is important to slow down the progressing of the disease in early stage, so that it will not develop to kidney failure.

Lower high blood pressure

High blood pressure occurs even before there is kidney function impairment. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can further damage to the kidneys and it can also cause heart disease so as to threaten your life. Medicine such as ACE inhibitors, ARBs and calcium channel blockers are effective in lowering high blood pressure. There are also some other Chinese herbs and therapies to dilate blood vessels so as to lower high blood pressure.

Decrease creatinine level

There are medicine and therapies to help improve kidney function so as to decrease creatinine level. They can eliminate kidney inflammation, degrade extracellular matrix and provide essential substances to help kidney repair themselves so as to improve kidney function.

Shrink kidney cysts

After years of research, we find that some herbs can stop the growth of kidney cysts and reabsorb kidney fluid. In this way, these kidney cysts will become small.

Cost of treatment

As to the cost of treatment, it is difficult to say, because it depends on the medical condition of patients. The general cost of treatment is about 10,000-15,000 USD. After an accurate diagnosis, we can give you the accurate price.

Not every patient with PKD will have to do dialysis. With the development of medical science, there are more treatment methods and medicine to control the blood pressure and lower creatinine level, thus protecting the kidney function. Space limited, we can not list all our medicine and therapies here. For further information, you can contact online doctor or leave a message below.

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