Why PKD Patients Reject Dialysis

2015-04-14 08:46

Dialysis is a common treatment used in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Although it can help alleviate symptoms associated with PKD, there are still some patients who reject dialysis. Why PKD patients do not want to undergo dialysis?

Dialysis can replace part of kidney function but it only cleanses some wastes in blood and do not work for renal fibrosis. Therefore, only dialysis can not cure kidney disease. Besides, dialysis will also have some side effects. That is the reason why PKD patients reject dialysis.

The side effects of dialysis include:

1. Low Blood Pressure

Low blood pressure is one common complication of dialysis. Many causes can cause low blood pressure. Blood pressure decrease can be caused by fast ultrafiltration or inadaptation to acetate dialysis fluid.

2. Arrhythmia

The causes of dialysis complications include coronary heart disease, severe anemia, disorder of electrolytes and acid-base, hyoxemia, low blood pressure and medications.

3. muscle cramps

Muscle cramp is one common side effect of dialysis. It can be caused by tissue hypoxia, low sodium and insufficient blood flow.

4. dialysis disequilibrium syndrome

The incidence rate of dialysis disequilibrium syndrome is 3.4%-20%. The side effects of dialysis mainly include vomiting, nausea, convulsion, coma and even death.

5. Heart failure

Heart failure is the most dangerous and serious side effect in dialysis.

From the above, we can see dialysis has a certain risk so many kidney disease patients do not want to take dialysis. If a kidney disease patient wants to live without dialysis, he must take treatment to repair kidney damage and improve renal function. Only when renal function is improved can dialysis be eliminated.

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