Can surgery cure polycystic kidney disease

Surgery is a common therapy to remove the big cysts for the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). It can relive the patients' sufferings temporarily. However, can surgery treat the disease effectively?
 Polycystic kidney disease is one of the most common life-threatening genetic diseases, affecting an estimated 12.5 million people worldwide. In half of the people with polycystic kidney disease, there is no family history of the disease. In these cases, the gene coding for the disease occurs out of a spontaneous genetic mutation without either parent being a carrier of the gene.
Surgery is a common therapy to remove the big cysts for the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). It can relive the patients' sufferings temporarily. However, can surgery treat the disease effectively?
The answer is no ,surgery don't cure polycystic kidney disease .The most commonly adopted surgeries include puncture, decortication, nephrectomy and kidney transplant. These surgeries can help remove the cysts quickly and relieve pains in the back and sides. However, surgery provides only temporary relief and usually does not slow the disease's progression toward renal failure or uremia. Besides the injuries to the physical and mental health, the recurrent rate after the surgeries is high. Usually after 6 months to one year, many PKD patients will once again have these symptoms and discomforts and in most cases the illness condition will become worse and worse. This is because the surgeries can only remove the kidney lesions and help relieve the discomforts without solving the root causes, so the disease is easy to relapse and since the states in the kidneys does not get any improvement, the kidneys’ conditions will become worse and worse and the best period for treatment will be missed.

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