Stages of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-06-21 07:49

Do you know what are the stages of polycystic kidney disease (PKD)? As we know, polycystic kidney disease is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys. For PKD patients, the have the polycystic kidney disease gene from their birth, and the development of the PKD can be divided into some stages.

1. Early stage OF PKD

Since PKD is genetic, so people will have cysts when they are born. Just because the kidney cysts are small in that time, and the kidney cysts will not cause ant symptoms, so people will have no awareness of their PKD. This is usually occurred before 20 years old. If there is someone who has PKD in the family, the other family members also need to have early test to find whether they have PKD. And the early treatment will make a good prognosis for them.

2. Growth stage

The PKD growth stage means the kidney cysts grow fast in this stage, which is usually among 30-40 years old. In this stage, patients need to have treatment as early as possible, which can help prevent the development of PKD, and make a good prognosis for PKD patients. Patients need to have treatment to slow down the growth of the kidney cysts. Here we recommend patients to have Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which can help make great improvements of the illness condition of PKD patients. If you want to get more information about the treatment, you can ask the doctor online, they will answer you as soon as possible.

3. Kidney cysts swelling period

In this stage, the kidney cysts will get enlarged, and most of the PKD patients are older than 40 years old in this stage. When the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, it will easily cause ruptured, which will make further damage to kidneys. And PKD patients will have some severe symptoms, such as protein urine, infections, blood in urine, back, high blood pressure, swelling, etc. In this condition, patients need to have treatment to shrink the big kidney cysts and protect the kidney function.

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