Final Stage Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease

2014-03-24 02:07

If your polycystic kidney disease (PKD) can not be brought under controlled timely, it will develop to kidney failure. And then many symptoms appear. What are final stage symptoms of polycystic kidney disease? In the following, some common symptoms are introduced.

-Big belly

Because the cysts keep growing, which may make your kidneys so big that they fill in your abdomen, making you look like a pregnant person.

-Back pain

Back pain becomes more severe than in the early stage, because of the damaged kidney, kidney stone moving, infection, cyst rupture and the oppression to other tissues.

-Blood urine

Because cysts rupture or kidney function impairs, red blood cells leak into urine, resulting in microscopic hematuria or gross hematuria.

-High blood pressure

As a matter of fact, in the early stage of polycystic kidney disease, high blood pressure occur. In the final stage, it may not be prone to be controlled, because of severely kidney function impairment.

-Uremia

In final stage, your kidney function may decline to lower than 15 %. Too much wastes and toxins build up in your blood, which may result in uremia. And then your cardiovascular system, respiratory system, gastrointestinal tract, blood system, neuromuscular system and bone will all be affected. Therefore, cardiovascular disease, shortness of breath, poor appetite, nausea and vomiting, anemia, muscle cramp, osteoporosis and so on are not uncommon for you.

-Other symptoms

Besides the above symptoms, PKD patients may also suffer from urinary tract infection, kidney stone, polycystic liver and cerebral aneurysm and so on.

If you have polycystic kidney disease, you had better control it as early as possible, or you may have to remove one of your kidneys out of your body and live on dialysis or kidney transplant. For more information, please contact online doctors. We are very glad to help you.

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