Does Enlarged Kidney in PKD Mean Kidney Failure

2014-09-11 09:00

If you are a PKD patient, you may find your kidneys become larger and larger over time. Also, you begin to experience more and more physical discomforts with the enlargement of kidney. Well, does enlarged kidney in PKD mean kidney failure? How can we deal with this condition well?

Does enlarged kidney in PKD mean kidney failure?

As a matter of fact, kidneys in PKD enlarge over time due to enlargement and increase of kidney cyst. For small kidney cysts, they are harmless and we can live normally without taking any medicines and dialysis if they can be keep in a very small size. However, in PKD, both the number and the size of kidney cyst increase over time, which results in kidney impairment directly. What is worse, kidney becomes larger and larger due to the increase of kidney cyst and finally the kidney may occupy the whole enterocoelia.

Enlarged kidney means the kidney is fully covery by large kidney cyst. Under such a condition, kidneys have lost most of their working ability, so enlarged kidney always indicate kidney failure. Additional, in severe cases, enlarged kidneys should be taken out of the body through surgery, so as to avoid damaging surrounding internal organs.

How to deal with enlarged kidney in PKD?

In Polycystic Kidney Disease, kidney enlarges due to increase and enlargement of kidney cyst, so by shrinking cysts in kidney, enlargement of kidney can be alleviated successfully.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the treatment to shrink kidney cysts. It works on all the kidney cyst at one time, which is very different from surgery. Surgery treats one or two cysts at one time and after surgery, small kidney cysts enlarge quickly. Therefore, compared with surgery, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is better.

Besides, with Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, not only enlarged kidney and kidney cyst can be treated well, impaired kidney function also can be rebuilded. More importantly, no side effects can be caused during and after treatment.

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