What is the Life Expectancy of 21 Years Old PKD Patients

2014-04-05 02:03

Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic kidney disease with numerous fluid-filled cysts building up in kidneys and people with PKD have a high risk of getting kidney failure because of the enlargement of kidney cysts and kidney damage. So PKD patients often keep a watchful eye on the life expectance. Then what is the life expectancy of 21 years old PKD patients?

For PKD patients, they may have no obvious symptoms in their early stage, because there is no severe damage to kidneys and the kidneys can still work normally. If a patient was diagnosed with PKD in his 21 years old, he may have no symptoms in early times, but with the enlargement of kidney cysts, people will gradually develop into end stage kidney failure, and the certain time is usually more than 10 years. The younger people get PKD and develop symptoms, the more severe illness condition is for PKD patients. Besides, there are about 50% PKD patients will develop kidney failure at their 50s or 60s. In that condition, doctor will ask them to start dialysis or have a kidney transplant.

But the prognosis of 21 years old PKD patients will be different from case to case, because the illness condition will be different as well. Some patients can live their entire life without developing into end stage kidney failure, and they can live a normal life as other healthy people. However, for some other patients, they may have a poor prognosis with PKD. When the enlargement of kidney cysts cause kidney damage, there will be no cure treatment for their illness. But there are still some treatment that can help make a good prognosis for PKD patients and prolong their life expectancy.

Here we recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which can help shrink the enlarged kidney cysts and repair the damaged kidney tissues. Through a systemic treatment, it can help improve the kidney function and make a good prognosis for the 21 years old PKD patients. If you want to get more detailed treatment information about the therapy, you can leave a message below, we will answer you within 24 hours.

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