2011-11-30

What are the Commom Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Then what are the complications of polycystic kidney disease?
1 Cyst infection: generally, in this situation, patients often have pain in renal area, and also present fever. It is easy to mix cyst infection with pyelonephritis.
2 Hemoturesis: Few patients may have active and persistent gross hematuria, which even can threaten patient's life.
3 Hypertension or repeated urinary tract infection.
4 Kidney stone: under normal circumstances, the backache caused by PKD is dull pain. The occurrence of colic pain accompanied by gross hematuria occurs may indicate kidney stone.
5 Brain artery hemangima: the incidence for brain artery hemangima is about 10%-40%, often detected due to the hemangioma and cerebral hemorrhage.

No comments:

Post a Comment