Life Expectancy for PKD After Kidney Transplant

2014-03-20 08:12

For PKD patients, kidney transplant may be their dream, for it allows them to go back to a relatively normal life. But before the kidney transplant, the thing they most concern may be the life expectancy after kidney transplant.

In general, PKD does not affect the new kidney, so after kidney transplant, you may live a normal and full life. But you will have to take immunosuppressive medicines for the rest of your life to help your body from rejecting the new kidney. Because these medicine weaken your immune system, you will have an increased risk for serious infections, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Even though you take immunosuppressive medicines, it is still possible for your body to reject your new kidney. If this occurs, you will have to start dialysis and possibly wait for another kidney transplant. All these may affect your life expectancy. Therefore, if you decide to have a kidney transplant, you should prepare for these risks.

PKD is an inherited kidney disease which means if your family members suffer from PKD, you are prone to have PKD. Then regular checkups is needed to check these growing cysts and control your diet, symptoms and complications like high blood pressure, polycystic liver and brain aneurysm. Only in this way can you be a very good candidate for a transplant.

If your physical condition is not suitable for a kidney transplant. Do not lose hope. In our hospital, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is often used as the alternative treatment to kidney transplant. It can shrink the kidney cysts and repair the damaged kidneys so as to improve kidney function. However, this therapy only functions on patients who still have some kidney function. So far, our therapies have helped many patients get rid of dialysis and kidney transplant. For more information, please contact us.

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