Will PKD Come Back Again After Kidney Transplant

2014-10-22 14:37

When PKD develops to kidney failure stage, dialysis or kidney transplant will be needed for life-sustaining. Dialysis is helpful, but painful, so kidney transplant is regarded as the best solution by many PKD patients. However, clinical statistic show kidney disease comes back after kidney transplant in some cases, so some patients wonder if PKD will come back again after surgery.

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney disorder that can cause countless cysts in kidney. In early stage of PKD, only several small cysts appear in kidney. Under such a condition, kidney function is not impaired, so patients usually experience no symptoms at that time. However, with the deterioration of illness, more and more cysts are caused. These kidney cysts enlarge over time and when they become very large, they will oppress surrounding kidney tissues and impair their working ability. Therefore, in cases of PKD, kidney damages are mainly resulted from large kidney cysts.

PKD is associated with polycystine-1 and polycystine-2 which are the two genes that cause cyst formation in kidney. For PKD patients, if no effective treatment is given to deal with cysts in kidney, illness will develop to kidney failure finally. Kidney transplant is a medical procedure in which a new kidney is put into patient’s body to replace failed kidney to work. As the new kidney works well and meanwhile there is no PKD gene in the new kidney, so generally polycystic kidney does appears again after kidney transplant.

Besides, kidney transplant is a good way to deal with polycystic kidney, but it is very hard to find a matched kidney in limited time. Even if a matched kidney is found, patients run high risk to experience kidney rejection and for this reason, they have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life.

Lastly, kidney transplant is needed when PKD develops to kidney failure stage. For patients whose illness is not serious enough to require dialysis or kidney transplant, they can try Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy which not only helps them treat cysts in kidney, but also repair kidney damages and improve kidney function. With the help of this herbal treatment, they have great chance to avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.

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