Why Does PKD Lead to Hypertension

2014-05-22 07:33

Hypertension is a common compliant of PKD patients. Why does PKD lead to hypertension? If you would like to know the answer, please go on reading.

Causes of hypertension for PKD patients

For PKD patients, hypertension is often associated with ischemia and anoxia. When cysts become big, they oppress the blood vessels around, resulting in less blood flowing. In order to increase blood flow volume, your body will increase blood pressure. In addition, hypertension is associated with declined kidney function. As we all know, kidneys can regulate blood pressure.These cysts can damage your kidneys, leading to kidney failure.

Dangers of hypertension

Hypertension can further damage kidneys and speed up the growth of cysts. Besides hypertension can do damage to your heart and cerebrovascular. Sometimes it can cause severe complications such as stroke and rupture of brain aneurysm. Thus controlling high blood pressure is vital for PKD patients to slow down the progression to kidney failure and prevent complications.

How to reduce blood pressure?

The common drugs to reduce blood pressure are ACE inhibitors, ARBs, calcium-channel blockers, diuretics, etc. ACE inhibitors is to relax and widen the blood vessels so that blood pressure within the blood vessels is reduced. ARBs work by blocking the effect of angiotensin II on the blood vessel walls. Calcium-channel blockers affect the way calcium is used in the blood vessels and heart muscle. And diuretics can remove sodium and fluid from your body, which can also help reduce blood pressure.

However, these medicines all have side effects. And with the exacerbation of your state of illness, you have to increase the dose of the these medicine. If you would like to get rid of hypertension, you have to shrink these cysts and protect your kidney function. In China, we often recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. This treatment can inhibit renal tubule epithelial cells from proliferation and it can also remove the cyst fluid from the sacs so that the cysts gradually become small. Moreover, it can eliminate kidney inflammation and prevent kidney fibrosis to protect your kidney function.

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