High Blood Pressure And Polycystic Kidney Disease

2015-03-01 03:42

Doctors often hear Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients complain about their high blood pressure. Well, why do PKD patients have high blood pressure?

PKD is an inherited kidney disease and in the early stage patients have no symptoms. However, with the development of kidney cysts, they will oppress normal kidney tissues and make kidney tissue be in a state of ischemia and hypoxia. Besides, kidney cysts will generate immune inflammatory reaction. Gradually kidney tissues will be damaged. Kidney intrinsic cells have the function of secrete angiotensin. When kidney intrinsic cells are damaged, this secretion ability will be affected. This is the main reason of high blood pressure.

As for hypertension in this condition, common hypotensive medications have little effects. To control blood pressure well, you should treat your disease from the root.

PKD is an inherited disease so it is impossible to treat the disease from the root. Only we can do is to shrink kidney cysts and inhibit the immune inflammatory reaction of kidney intrinsic cells. This can alleviate renal ischemia and hypoxia and recover some kidney intrinsic cells. In this way, it can alleviate the abnormal state of angiotensin. This contributes to regulating blood pressure.

Some medications with invigorating and expanding blood vessel properties can be used to shrink renal cysts and change inner pressure of blood vessels. Thus, the difference of inner and outer cystic pressure can make cysts shrink to ideal size.

Besides, immune complexes should also be removed out of the body. No immune complexes depositing on kidneys will lead to new kidney cysts. PKD relapse can be prevented as well.

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