What Is the Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

2014-09-25 08:23

If you are learning about the prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease, this article will be recommended for you. And I am sure you will have a clear understanding about PKD and its prognosis when finish it.

What is Polycystic Kidney Disease?

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kidney disorder associated with gene. Mostly, it appears when patients are in their 20 and develops quickly when patients are 30s to 40s. PKD develops to kidney failure stage when patients are about 50-60 years old if no effective treatment is given to stop its progression.

PKD is the kidney problem that cause cyst formation in kidney. In early stage of PKD, there are few kidney cysts which are very small. Under such a condition, patients can live as normally as they did before as small kidney cysts usually cause no severe kidney damages. However, with the increase and enlargement of kidney cyst, more and more kidney tissues are injured, which leads to the severe impairment of kidney function.

What is the prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease?

Prognosis is a medical term for predicting the likely outcome of one’s current standing. PKD is a chronic kidney problem which usually needs two decades to develop to end stage. During this process, many factors can cause great influence on the prognosis of it:

1. Tight control of PKD symptoms

PKD can cause high blood pressure and proteinuria which also appear due to impairment of kidney function, in turn affects kidney condition directly. PKD patients who can bring these symptoms under control usually have a good prognosis.

2. Treatment method

So far there is no cure for PKD, but it does not mean there is nothing we can do but waiting from dialysis after the diagnosis of it. In Polycystic Kidney Disease, kidney tissues are injured due to large kidney cysts, so if we can shrink cysts and keep them in small size, new kidney damages can be avoided. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the treatment recommended to deal with cysts in kidney.

3. Diet plan

Although Polycystic Kidney Disease can not be cured with well-planed diet, but by making diet changes, kidney burden can be reduced, which can helps to slow down illness progression and improve prognosis.

4. Life style

A good life style also plays a part for a good prognosis. In general, patients who drink alcohol usually have a poorer prognosis compared with these who do not drink.

Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease is changeable, so there are many things that patients can do to improve their prognosis. If you are interested in this topic and want to learn details about how to improve prognosis, please leave message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com directly.

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