Life Expectancy for PKD Patients with Blood Urine

2014-04-07 03:47

Do you know what are the life expectancy for PKD patients with blood urine? Blood urine, which is also called hematuria, is a common symptom for people with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which can be caused by many factors. When patients suffer from blood urine, they need to have effective treatment to control it, which can help make a good prognosis for them.

What can cause blood urine for PKD patients?

Here are some common factors that can cause blood urine for PKD patients, such as cyst rupture, kidney stone, urinary tract infection, renal hematuria or even cancerization. If PKD patients suffer from blood urine, they need to have immediate test to hospital to find the basic cause of their blood urine, and then have effective treatment to control it as soon as possible. Because the unwell controlled blood urine will also cause further damage to kidneys and increase the progression of kidney failure.

What are the damages of blood urine for PKD patients?

Blood urine is always related to infections, and blood urine can easily cause infections in body and infections will worsen the blood urine. For PKD patients with blood urine, they can easily suffer from abdominal infection, high fever, systemic edema, sharp decline of kidney function and some other symptoms. And the long term unwell controlled blood urine will also cause anemia for PKD patients, because of the sharp decrease of platelet and the blood coagulation mechanism. In some severe cases, it can also cause kidney failure.

How to treat the blood urine in PKD?

Since there are so many causes of blood urine for PKD patients, so patients need to first find the basic cause of their blood urine and have effective treatment to control it. Besides, when people suffer from blood urine, they also need to prevent infections in their daily life, because infections can cause further damage to kidneys and increase the progression of kidney failure.

From above, we can know that PKD patients should pay attention to their blood urine, which can help make a good prognosis for them. If you want to get more detailed information about the treatment for blood urine in PKD, you can ask our doctor online, they will answer you freely.

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