Showing posts with label PKD. Show all posts
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2013-06-03

Can Alcohol Affect My Kidney Cyst

According to studies, alcohol has bad influence on kidney cyst, but how does it affect? Take a look and you will know how does alcohol affect our illness condition.
Firstly, long-term drinking of alcohol presents us many problems such as bleeding, anemia, disorder of function of platelet, abnormal absorb of intestines and stomach, hyperlipemia, atherosclerosis and so on. All these conditions are not beneficial for kidney cyst patients recover from their disease.
Secondly, drinking alcohol frequently causes high blood pressure, elevates serum creatinine level in the blood and present metabolic acidosis which makes us sick, anorectic and depressed. We know high blood pressure, high levels of creatinine and metabolic acid all have function to worsen kidney damages. With these factors, kidney cyst causes kidney failure more quickly, so we need to avoid these conditions.
Thirdly, drinking alcohol disorder the balance of nitrogen in our body and increase the decomposition of protein. When more and more protein are decomposed in our body, more and more urea nitrogen will be generated. We know our kidneys are in charge of reserving protein in our body and when there are much more protein in our body, renal burden is increased. With heavy burden, kidney cyst progress quickly and obviously, kidney failure occurs easily.
Fourthly, alcohol has stimulation function to our kidneys and this makes the generation of cyst fluids more and more quickly. We know kidney cyst enlarges with the increase of alcohol, and enlarged cyst always causes much more serious kidney damages, which makes it hard for kidney cyst to recover.
In conclusion, for the sake of healthy, kidney cyst patients should be far away from drinking alcohol. Besides, it you have developed this habit of drinking alcohol and found it is hardto kick this habit, they can ask your doctors, family members and friends for help.
Lastly, if you have any other problems about kidney cyst, please feel free to consult us. We are glad to help you and hoping we can defeat kidney cyst together.
If you have any questions about polycystic kidney disease or kidney cyst , but our renal expert not here , you can submit your cases , Our kidney expert will reply as soon as possible . I hope you'll get well soon !
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2013-05-21

Treatment for ADPKD with High Blood Pressure


Patient: I have ADPKD, 34 years old. My creatinine as of now is 1.4 six months before. I am taking telmisartan for pressure. Can you suggest?
Best Answer
Doctor: It is far from enough if you just take some hypotensors. ADPKD belongs to chronic kidney disease and without effective treatment, it will push us into dialysis and kidney transplant.
High blood pressure is the leading risk factor which can accelerate the progression of ADPKD. Therefore, it is very necessary to control blood pressure into normal range. But, to aovid kidney failure, we also need to receive some treatments to stop ADPKD from progressing.
So far, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the only treatment which has the ability to stop ADPKD without causing side effects and operation.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a kind of external treatment. In this treatment, the Chinese herbs are crushed into powder and the purpose of this is to make full use of the active ingredients. These Chinese herbs grow naturally and they shrink cysts in ADPKD through making pressure difference. We know fluids flow toward the side with lower pressrue, so as long as we make the pressure outside the cyst lower than that inside the cyst, cystic fluids ooze out of naturally.
If you are interested in our therapy, you can contact us and we will offer you more deatiled information. Hoping you can recover soon with our joint effort.

2013-04-15

Top 5 Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease


There are usually the following several symptoms before people get Polycystic Kidney Disease. In our daily life we should pay more attention to ourselves, and if these symptoms appear in us, we should go to hospital to do examination, so as to receive treatment as soon as possible.
★ Anemia: For most of the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, they will experience the process from mild anemia to serious anemia and meanwhile, this process is usually accompanied with nocturia. The appearance of this process has great affinity for the decrease of renal function and erythropoietin which is produced by kidneys.
★ Lump in Abdomen: Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease can feel the different size of lumps in midsection when kidneys enlarge to a certain degree. These lumps can move with the breath and when these lumps cause infections, patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease will feel pain in their belly. About fifty percent to eighty percent of patients have bilateral pumps and fifteen percent to thirty percent of patients can feel unilateral lumps.
★ High blood pressure: High blood pressure is one of the common symptoms for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, and usually fifty percent to sixty percent of patients have this symptom. High blood pressure usually is prior to the decrease of renal function and is accompanied with headache and dizziness. Blood pressure has a close relationship with type Ⅱ angiotension which is aimed at shrinking blood vessels. When renal function is damaged, renin in our body increase, which will promote the generation of type Ⅱangiotension, leading to the increase of blood pressure.
★ discomfort of waist and belly: Usually, discomfort of waist and belly appears in the early stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease. It mainly manifest with dull pain of back and sometimes severe pain.
★ Abnormal Urine: As the major symptoms, proteinuria or hematuria is one of the early symptoms and usually, proteinuria is the most frequent one. The appearance of proteinuria has a close relationship with glomerular barrier function. Gross hematuria is the major factor for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease to realize that they should do an examination. Due to the constant increase of cysts, cysts oppress each other, causing fracture of cysts and renal bleeding. Consequently, gross hematuria appears. In addition, in the early stage, mild frequent micturition, urgent urination and diuresis may appear among patients.
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2013-04-13

Polycystic Kidney Disease Prognosis


Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) varies from individual to individual. Polycsytic Kidney Disease is divided into two types in clinic: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD). The followings are the general prognosis of these two different kinds of Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Prognosis of Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
Although Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease is infrequent, the prognosis of it is very poor. Usually, the baby dies of uremia (end stage of Kidney Failure) within several months after their birth.
This poor prognosis results from the following several factors: Firstly, compared with Polycystic Kidney Disease in adult, ARPKD is more complicated and apart from causing uremia, it is always accompanied by liver fibrosis and portal hypertension, both of which have poor prognosis. Secondly, as ARKD occurs to baby and the baby is too young to bear some medicines, so it is very difficult for the doctors to prescribe.
Prognosis of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Prognosis of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease differs greatly. In general, the healthy kidney function accounts for seventy one percent when sufferers are fifty, fifty eight percent when they are fifty eight and twenty three when they are seventy. Male usually has a worse prognosis than female. Besides, early occurrence of the disease always presents poor prognosis. In addition, for some people, their disease may do not appear at all.
Prognosis of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease is easily affected by many factors such as high blood pressure, times of pregnancy, infection, diet, living habits and treatment chosen by sufferers. Usually, people with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease can live for ten years after the occurrence of symptoms, if their creatinine level has obvious increase. However, if there is no increased creatinine, then they can live for thirty to forty years.
If effective treatment is adopted, it is quite possible for sufferers with Polycystic Kidney Disease to prolong their life. Therefore, treatment plays an important role in the prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Anything unclear or for more information, welcome to consult our consultant online or leave message to ckdsite@hotmail.com .
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2013-04-12

Polycystic Kidney Disease Treatment Method


Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a disorder in which clusters of cysts develop primarily within your kidneys. Cysts are noncancerous round sacs containing water-like fluid.
Dialysis for Polycystic Kidney Disease 

Kidney dialysis is a necessary treatment for people with end-stage kidney disease or permanent kidney failure. You need dialysis if you've lost about 85% to 90% of your kidney function. Temporary dialysis may be needed in some cases.
Hemodialysis is most commonly used to treat people with end-stage kidney disease. However, children who need dialysis usually receive peritoneal dialysis.
Kidney Transplant For Polycystic Kidney Disease

PKD can cause the kidneys to fail. Because kidneys are essential for life, people with ESRD must seek one of two options for replacing kidney functions: kidney transplantation. In hemodialysis, blood is circulated into an external filter, where it is cleaned before re-entering the body; in peritoneal dialysis, a fluid is introduced into the abdomen, where it absorbs wastes and is then removed. Transplantation of healthy kidneys into ESRD patients has become a common and successful procedure. Healthy-non-PKD-kidneys transplanted into PKD patients do not develop cysts.
Ayurveda For Polycystic Kidney Disease

Ayurveda has several medicines which can act on cysts and reduce both the number and size of cysts. In addition, there are several Ayurvedic medicines which act on abdominal cysts, benign tumours, and fluid filled pockets such that the size can either be reduced, or the growth can be dissolved completely. Ayurvedic medicines work effectively for polycystic ovaries, polycystic kidneys, as well as within the liver. Most such medicines are simple herbs which are completely safe for prolonged use and also have multiple benefits like improving the digestion, and improving the function of the affected organ such as ovary, kidneys and the liver. The proper use of such medicines therefore helps in conception in women having polycystic ovaries. Individuals who have polycystic kidneys can be treated so as to reduce the size and number of the cysts, in order to prevent complications like hypertension and chronic kidney failure.
Chinese Medicine For Polycystic Kidney disease 

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has two goals: one is to shrink kidney cysts and the other is to improve kidney function. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is created on the basis of TCM and it has overcome its disadvantages through the combination of advanced western medicine and traditional herbal medicine. This treatment, compared with oral herbal medicine, is externally applied on lower back skin so the pesticide effects can reach to the kidney lesion directly.
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2013-04-10

How Can Cure Kidney Cyst (Renal Cyst)


Once a cyst is found in your kidney, the first thing you need to do is to make clear what kind of kidney cyst do you have because we may need to adopt different measures to deal with these two kind of kidney cyst. Well then, should kidney cyst be treated?
Should Polycystic Kidney Disease be treated?
Polycystic Kidney Disease, which is also known as PKD, is genetic kidney disease. It occurs with people’s birth and usually is founded when sufferers are 20. in rare cases, Polycystic Kidney Cyst do not affect our kidneys, but, mostly, Polycystic Kidney Disease will lead to kidney failure if we just leave it untreated. Our kidneys play such an important role in maintaining our normal life, so once they are damaged, our life will be affected. Seeing from this aspect, Polycystic Kidney Disease should be treated.
When Polycystic Kidney Disease damages our kidneys, a series of abnormal symptoms will remind us of receiving treatment. These symptoms are lower back pain, elevated blood pressure, enlarged kidneys and hematuria which includes gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria.
Should simple kidney cyst be treated?
Simple kidney cyst is more common among elders and about a half of people, who are over than age 50, can be found to have cysts in their kidneys. In many cases, this kind of kidney cyst does not affect people’ life; however, if the cysts are enlarging, kidneys will at a high risk of being damaged. Under this circumstance, sufferers should go to hospital for treatment, so as to prevent kidney damages.
Besides, whether kidney cyst should be treated depends on the cyst’s location. Usually, a cyst in the deep of the kidneys can result in kidney decline more severely by oppressing surrounding kidney tissues. A cyst on the surface of the kidneys will cause much less kidney damages, but it is easy to rupture, especially when it is more than 5cm in diameter.
For both these two types of kidney cyst, if the cysts are enlarging and your kidneys are damaged, you should go to hospital for treatment; otherwise, a life-threatening condition will be caused. For further information, you can leave me message by ckdsite@htoamil.com or consult our consultant online.

Micro Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Treatment For Enlarged Cysts With PKD


Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease and usually have a family history. And its incidence rate is 50% and the abnormal gene can be passed from generation to generation. With the enlargement of cysts, patient's kidney will become big so your belly will enlarge correspondingly. Patients usually have some common symptoms like high blood pressure, discontinuous hematuria, back pain, fatigue and so on. What symptoms or discomforts does your children have now?
The most dangerous factor for PKD is the enlarged cyst can press normal renal tissue, causing ischemia and anoxia in kidneys. Kidney can fail to work gradually. There is no effective treatment which can remove genetic disease at present. But that is not to say we can do nothing about this disease. Cllinical experience show that as long as we can control the enlargement of cysts, renal function can be protected and patient can lead a normal life in that case. It is proven that the smaller cysts are, the fewer discomforts there is. So early treatment is quite necessary to reduce the discomforts and halt the aggravation of renal function.
What treatment can deal with the enlarged cysts?
Our treatment for PKD includes Miro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, immunotherapy, stem cells transplant, blood purification. Among them, micro-chinese medicine osmotherapy is the basic treatment. This is not an oral medicine but an external osmotherapy. The effective component can penetrate into human body through waist area. Patients can take this treatment just by lying on the bed. As per patient's reaction to the medicine, patients need to take the treatment 2-3 times each day and it takes 45mins per time, patients can feel massaged during the treatment, safe and comfortable ( check the attachment). The mechnism ot the treatment is to dilate blood vessels, restrain the hyperplasia of cystic cells, increase the permeability of cystic cells. By taking this treatment, cysts can stop enlargement and begin to shrink gradually, which can effectively reduce cysts' pressure on kidneys. Consequently, renal function can be protected. Usually, patients can feel improvement within 7-10days in their urine color, appearance and quantity. Their fatigue can also get improved correspondingly. Compared with western surgery, this treatment has low side-effect, and will not impair normal renal tissue. Chinese medicine focus on diagnostic and therapeuti principle, therefore prescriptions are made as per patient's specific condition. And if your renal function does not decline severely, you can just take this therapy, And if your renal function decreases alot, you need also take other therapy to improve your renal function.
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2013-04-01

Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet


Food for people with polycystic kidney disease, it is important for those with high blood pressure to eat a diet low in salt. A low-fat, moderate calorie diet is also important. Research studies on diet have shown promising results for mice and rats with polycystic kidney disease; however, none of these diet changes have been shown to be beneficial in humans.
High-potassium foods such as acorn squash, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, orange juice, lentils and other legumes must be eaten very sparingly. Healthier choices include mushrooms, onions and green peppers because these are low-potassium foods.
Try to eat a lot of high-fiber foods that can combat insulin resistance -- high insulin levels have been linked with heart disease and faster rates of PKD progression. Good sources of fiber, in addition to fruit and vegetables, are whole grains and legumes.
Avoid excess amounts of salt, which causes your blood pressure to rise. This includes products like processed foods, soups, chips and soy sauce.
PKD patients should drink lots of water since water helps flush out waste products and helps you avoid dehydration, a common symptom of PKD. Avoid caffeine -- which causes dehydration -- found in coffee, chocolate, black tea, green tea, white tea, cola and even some decaf products.

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2013-03-31

How To Cure Polycystic Kidney Disease


Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited disorder in which many masses or cysts form in the kidney, eventually replacing normal kidney tissue. The disease can also cause cysts to form in the liver. Polycystic kidney disease isn't curable, but treatments can reduce symptoms and improve the patient's quality of life. Read on to learn more about how to treat polycystic kidney disease.
Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. There are many kinds of performance forms of Chinese medicine. There is decoction made by boiling the medical herbs and saving the juice, and there is powder by grinding the herbs and there is also pills, mastic, vina, troche, electuary, injection etc. We use a new processing method to make the powder more refined and easier to be absorbed, so it is called micronization .
How does Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy treatment polycystic kidney disease ?
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has following functions:
1) Through promoting the permeability of cyst wall, cyst liquid will be reabsorbed into blood vessels, then will be discharged out of body along urine , so cysts will shrink gradually. And it also can restrain the secretion of cyst wall epithelial cell, so prevent cysts from growing again.
2) Through dilating the renal blood vessels, more nutrients in blood will be transferred into kidney lesions, so kidneys will get more nutrients.
3) Through degrading the extracellular matrix, the internal environment of ischemia and hypoxia in the kidneys will be improved, and the perfusion flow of the blood to the kidneys will be increased, so the filtered ability of the kidneys will be improved.

2013-03-28

How To Prevent PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease) Develop into Renal Failure


Will PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease) develop into Renal Failure? This is a question many patients who have been diagnosed with PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease)often ask and they are really concerned with the development of PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease). As we know, PKD is a kind of genetic disease, which means that there are many cysts in kidney. In the cysts, there is liquid which is isolated with the outside.
Will PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease) develop into Renal Failure? The answer is absolutely. If PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease)can not be controlled well, cysts will press renal units day by day. And then, when the renal units are damaged by 50%, renal insufficiency will take place. With the increasing of damaged renal units, kidney can not work as well as before, and Uremia may even take place. This process is called renal fibrosis.
So how to prevent PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease)from developing into Renal Failure? Effective measures can make it.
In western countries, doctors often apply puncture or operation, which can only eliminate cysts for a while and can not treat it fundamentally. In addition, patients with PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease)may easily get infection. So more and more patients are seeking for a better treatment, which can treat PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease)thoroughly and has no side effect.
Now this dream has come true. After more than 20 years’ trial and error, experts in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital researched out a brand new therapy based on traditional Chinese medicine: Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
Three processes how Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy go as follows:
Firstly, invigorate the circulation of blood. By extending renal arteries, the groundwater increment of blood will increase, micro-circulation in the body can be improved. In this way, the permeability of cyst wall will increase, the reabsorption of sac liquid will be increase, which can shrink the cysts.
Secondly, clear away the stasis and immune complex. Degrade the fibrosis and the deterioration chain which is caused by renal fibrosis.
Thirdly, repair the damaged intrinsic cells and rebuild normal renal function.
After these three steps, cysts will shrink and PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease)will surely not develop into Renal Failure.
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2013-03-26

Stage and Treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease


The Stage and Treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease
How to control and treat Polycystic Kidney Disease? Polycystic Kidney is a kind of hereditary kidney disease which is attributed to autosomal dominant inheritance as a kind of progressive genetic kidney disease. There are some rules in the paroxysm and development of this disease. Most patients do not suffer from the disease until they grow up, and some patients may have Liver Multiple Cyst and Calculus at the same time. The notable character of the disease is abnormal growth of Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells. The Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells would have secreting function when the phenotype of them turns into Cyst Epithelial Cells. Because the cells secrete more and more liquid without normal excretion pathway as the growth of the age, lots of Cyst Fluid is accumulated there. And this results in the enlargement of the cysts, the rise of the pressure in the cysts and the increase of surface tension of it. At this time some sensitive patients would have lumbar unwell and feel sore and bursting. And when part of the cysts is infected, patients would be painful. By the gradual increase of the cysts, the normal structure of the kidney would be replaced, and the function of the kidney begin to decline gradually, which results in Hypertension and abnormal result in test of Urine Routine and renal function.
There are some rules in each Polycystic Kidney Disease stage:
A. Emergence period: the disease is a kind of hereditary disease, and patients always have the cysts inborn which are just too small to be checked out at early stage and it is generally difficult to check out the cysts before the 20s of the patient. If there are the cases of Polycystic Kidney Disease in their family, people should take the examination as early as possible to observe the growth state of the cysts. And they need to take good care of their body.
B. Growth stage: There would be a rapid growth of the cysts when the patient are at the age of 30s to 40s. And we call this period as the growth stage medically. It should be given close observation in growth period. But Western doctors have no method of treatment in this period and they believe the treatment is unnecessary, so what they do is just to conduct symptomatic treatment such as Hypertension and so on, which is quite passive. Patients should positively conduct treatment in this period to stop or slow the cysts’ growth rate by applying the Chinese medicine with the stronger effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. And this would meet the purpose to extend the lifetime of the patients. We believe the period is the critical period to slow the growth rate of the cysts by using the Chinese medicine with the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
C. The swelling period: the cysts would further grow and swell when the patient is in his 40s. In this period the cysts is more than 4cm in size and begin to break up. We call this period as the swelling period. By the enlargement of the cysts, there would be more clinical symptoms such as backache, albuminuria, blood urine, and the increase of blood pressure. We should observe closely in this period. And this period is also the critical period for treament combined with traditional Chinese and western medicine. We could use Chinese medicine to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis and discharge the toxin of the body, in essence we protect the renal function by getting rid of the cysts liquid which is harmful to the renal function. So the swelling period of Polycystic Kidney is the critical time for the protection of renal function through combined treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western.
D. The broken up period: If the cysts continue growing, it would break due to some external causes. Once the cysts are broken, patients must go to hospital for treatment immediately to restrain the infection positively in case of the emerging of Ichorrhemia or the acute deterioration of renal function. And this would be beneficial to the dispose appropriately.
F. Uremia period: we conduct treatment specially aiming at Uremia to protect the renal function. The Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis is necessary in later period.
Polycystic Kidney is a kind of hereditary disease and it is impossible to avoid, so the disease can only be restrained in the early stage of those period. Many patients show great fear to dialysis and think the Chinese medicine cannot cure the disease completely. The Western medicine is just to cure the symptoms but not the disease, which gives the patients endless despair. Indeed we should confront a disease with an easy, for the less burden you suffer, the more hope you will have!
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2013-03-24

Diagnose Of Polycystic Kidney Disease


How to diagnose Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)? PKD is a genetic kidney disorder; usually, the diagnosis of this disease should be based on family history, clinical symptoms, physical tests and other auxiliary examinations:
1. Family history:
Generally, if one of the parents have the disease, incidence rate of PKD is 50 percent in children; if both parents have this disease, the morbidity can increase to 75 percent.
2. Clinical symptoms:
1) Urinary system symptoms: the onset of PKD is usually over 40 years old. Patients often present obvious symptoms such as back or abdominal pains, renal colic, hematuria, headaches, nausea, vomiting and weight loss.
2) Cardiovascular symptoms
Patients often suffer from high blood pressure, mitral valve prolapse, left ventricular hypertrophy and aortic insufficiency.
3) Digestive system symptoms, including combined liver cysts, pancreas cysts and spleen cysts.
3. Imaging tests
1) Ultrasound: manifestations of PKD in ultrasound mainly include obviously augmented kidney size, various cysts and intensified echo in renal parenchyma. High acuity can detect small cysts with 0.2 cm in diameter, thereby, ultrasound is often applied as a antenatal diagnosis and family member screening method of PKD.
As is put forward by Ravine in 1994, diagnosis standard for PKD through B-ultrasound is: for those with family history and less than 30 years old, there exist two cysts in bilateral or unilateral kidneys; at least 2 cysts in bilateral kidneys for 30-59 year old patients; at least 4 cysts for those over 60 years old.
In those with no family history, PKD can be diagnosed if there are more than 10 cysts in the kidneys.
2) CT and MRI: the two tests can find out 0.3-0.5cm kidney cysts. MRI can test out kidney size; the ratio between kidney cysts and normal renal tissue sectional area can reflect PKD progression condition sensitively.
3) Gene diagnosis: gene test techniques mainly include gene linkage analysis, microsatellite DNA detection and direct detection of gene mutation, which are often take as antenatal diagnosis or performed in those without familial inheritance.
4. Auxiliary examinations:
1) Urinalysis: there are no abnormal symptoms at early stage; in developing processes, many patients experience hematuria. Proteinuria can be seen in some patients.
2) Urine osmolality: for PKD patients, damage of kidney concentration function comes earlier than decreased Glomerular Filtration Rate(GFR). Urine oamolality is an sensitive indicator for impaired urine concentration.
3) KUB plain film: it can reflect irregular shape of the kidneys and increased kidney developing.
The above is mainly related to the diagnosis of PKD. For those with family history, it is advised to develop healthy renal habits so as not to stimulate growth of the cysts. Cysts over 5 cm in diameter are likely to result in kidney damage, thereby, positive treatment is suggested.
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2013-03-22

Why Do Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease Have Back Pain


When people have back pain, they always associate it with Polycystic Kidney Disease. Then why do patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease always have back pain? As a patient with Polycystic Kidney Disease, do you often feel pain in your lower back? If yes, let’s see what does back pain mean for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease?
Back pain is the common symptom of Polycystic Kidney Disease in early stage. For patients with this disease, about sixty percent of them have this symptom. Moreover, the incidence of back pain which prefer to female increases with ageing as well as the enlargement of cysts. The pain can be dull pain, bursting pain, pricking or knifelike pain. Acute pain and exacerbation of pain usually indicates fracture of cysts, concurrent infection or occurrence of urinary obstruction caused by stone or blood clot. Different from acute pain, chronic pain can arises from enlargement of cysts, oppression to adjacent organs, pull to diolame or renal pedicle and interstitial inflammation. Apart from these, huge liver cyst can also cause pain, but this pain happens in the location of right rib.
For patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, the appearance of back pain illustrates that their disease has aggravated and the cyst has enlarge to a certain degree. At that time, if patients do not receive any treatments, their cysts will enlarge persistently and destroy renal intrinsic cells gradually, finally leading to renal failure. Therefore, once back pain appears, the best solution for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease is to receive treatment.
For patients with this disease, the key point of treating their disease is to shrink cysts and then repair damaged renal intrinsic cells. When cyst is shrunk, the oppression to adjacent renal tissues will reduce, as a result, back pain will be relieved. What is more, the remaining renal function will be saved at the same time. In a word, for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, the earlier they receive treatment, the easier for them to stop their disease develops into renal failure.
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2012-08-16

Hematuria can indicate the severity of PKD

The hematuria positioning:
The beginning of hematuria: urine, there hematuria, after the urine is clear. Often prompts the lesions of the anterior urethral (bulbar and penile). The parts of the foreign body, inflammation, tumors, polyps, caruncle stones and stenosis can cause hematuria.
Terminal hematuria: like in the urine before the end of urination, hematuria, or still in the complete cessation of blood drip from the urethra. This is due to muscle contractions of the bladder neck and posterior urethra after urination is completed. Often prompt the bladder neck, bladder trigone, the posterior urethra or prostate lesions. Such as acute inflammation of the posterior urethra, bladder trigone, urethritis, prostatitis has a long pedicle of bladder cancer, broke into the urethra, bladder neck polyps and cancer, prostate enlargement and cancer and so on.
3 hematuria in the whole course of urination: to have blood in the urine during urination. This suggests that urinary tract bleeding lesions in the bladder neck above. Bleeding lesions can be divided into: 1. Glomerular hematuria; secondary glomerulonephritis and primary glomerular disease, hematuria due to various reasons are collectively referred to as glomerular hematuria, but also can be called medicine hematuria. Non-glomerular hematuria: including a small tube - interstitial disease, pyelonephritis, kidney stones, tuberculosis, cancer, ureteral stones, tuberculosis, cancer, inflammation and bladder neck following bladder inflammation, stones, tuberculosis, cancer and other rare diseases such as polycystic kidney, left renal vein hypertension, low back pain - hematuria syndrome, the disease caused by these variables hematuria are hematuria, but in the following parts in the glomerular so called non-renal The ball hematuria, most of the surgical hematuria.
Hematuria qualitative classification: with or without pain (renal colic) will be divided into pain hematuria and painless hematuria hematuria occurred. Usually inflammation, stones and cancer of the late emergence of painful hematuria. This is mostly the surgery hematuria areas. Glomerulonephritis and cancer early and often painless hematuria.

2012-08-07

Treatments for the Complications of Adult PKD

A general treatment: most patients do not have to change their lifestyle and activity restriction. Right kidney was swollen, should pay attention to prevent abdominal injuries, and to avoid cyst rupture. When the patient is in renal failure and uremia
Should be treated accordingly principles.
2, the cyst to the top decompression: this surgery to alleviate the oppression of the cysts of the renal parenchyma, and to protect the majority of the remaining renal unit from the extrusion and further damage, renal ischemic conditions have improved, some renal units have been restored , delayed development of the disease. The key to successful operation as early as possible to surgery, cyst decompression must be thorough, do not give up a small cyst and deep cyst decompression. Bilateral should be surgery, bilateral surgery time interval of more than six months. Advanced cases, such as existing renal dysfunction in azotemia, uremia, whether or not associated with high blood pressure, decompression therapy is no longer justified, the surgery to combat anti-may aggravate the condition.
3, Chinese medicine treatment: It has been reported Onyang kidney, spleen and Water treatment principles to achieve a certain effect, delaying the process.
4, dialysis and transplantation: enter the end-stage renal failure should be immediately to the dialysis treatment, the preferred hemodialysis. Kidney transplant survival rate of the polycystic kidney disease and other causes similar to the performer, but also diseases associated with increased postoperative processing difficulties, affecting transplantation.
The treatment of hematuria: hematuria, unless treated as soon as possible clear reasons should be reduced activity or bed rest. Dialysis or dialysis patients, such as recurrent severe and beyond the control of hematuria may consider the use of transcatheter renal artery embolization.
6, infection treatment: renal infection and cyst infection is the main complication of this disease, the general principle of combined antibiotics.
7, with upper urinary tract stones treatment: according to stone location and size of urinary tract stones principles of treatment.
8, treatment of hypertension: renal ischemia and renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system activation is the main reason of hypertension, antihypertensive drugs should so choose.

Complications of Congenital Polycystic Kidney Disease


Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary kidney disease due to multiple cysts in the cortex and medulla of the kidney, polycystic kidney disease is a result in many complications of the disease, disease treatment is very difficult in advance to detect the disease early treatment conducive to control the disease, polycystic kidney disease have a common complication?
For many people who have polycystic kidney disease family history, it is necessary to know what are about the disease's complications. Understanding of this area, so that future in the face of this disease, better treatment, allowing the disease to get better control.
First of all, presumably a lot of people have polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary kidney disease, polycystic kidney complications is one of the most concern. Mainly the performance of multiple or numerous sizes fluid cysts in both kidneys. Deepening understanding of the scientific progress of this disease, the prognosis is significantly improved. The course of treatment often polycystic kidney complications. That polycystic kidney complications, what does?
1, the cyst infection: general many cases can cause kidney pain and tenderness, and fever. To identify this disease infection or pyelonephritis is not easily line gallium scan photography would be helpful at this time.
Hematuria: there is this aspect, but very few cases, there may be activities persistence of gross hematuria, and even life-threatening.
3, high blood pressure or repeated urinary tract infections and other complications, also need attention.
4, kidney stones: Under normal circumstances, the polycystic kidney back pain is generally dull prompted concurrent kidney stones, cramps and accompanied by gross hematuria.
Cerebral arterial circle Angioma: Under normal circumstances, we need to know complicated by the vascular tumor by 10% to 40%, often due to vascular aneurysm, cerebral hemorrhage further examination was found. In addition, the thoracic aortic aneurysm and valvular heart disease (such as valvular regurgitation and prolapse) are more common. May be associated with portal hypertension and alveolar dysplasia in infantile polycystic kidney disease.
6, multiple cysts of other organs: experts say, middle age found in polycystic kidney disease patients, about half have polycystic liver disease after the age of 60, about 70%. Is generally believed that their development is slower, and more about polycystic kidney disease 10 years later. The cyst expansion is made by the lost bile duct. In addition, pancreas and ovaries may be complicated by the cyst, colonic diverticulitis complicated by a higher rate.
Pyelonephritis: In addition to the above, in this regard is also a common complication of polycystic kidney disease, the reason is not clear. The symptoms of pus in urine with little or no. Smear or quantitative culture of diagnosis can be made. Citrate 67Ga scan photography to determine the site of infection, including the location of the abscess.

2012-08-05

What are the Treatments for proteinuria in PKD


Polycystic kidney disease proteinuria how treatment, radical treatment of the points of TCM surgical treatment and Chinese medicine. Before the choice of treatment must be an understanding of the polycystic kidney disease.
Polycystic kidney disease albuminuria is how it treated?
Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary disease of the renal cortex and medulla showed multiple cysts. 90-95% of family history, 5-10% without family history, is a genetic gradient. More common in polycystic kidney disease autosomal dominant type. Also known as adult-type. More than 30-50 years old, the incidence of onset from generation to generation. Offspring incidence probability of 50%. Adult polycystic kidney disease is a systemic disease, often accompanied by abnormal liver cysts, intracranial arterial pain, and heart valve kidney dirty. Sometimes the kidney surface is now the exception of clinical show of polycystic kidney disease.
Clinical polycystic kidney disease show cysts in the implementation of the composition and increase the pain, hypertension, hematuria, proteinuria, and renal dysfunction. Polycystic kidney complications of frequent urinary tract infections, urinary tract stones, cysts, hemorrhage, hepatic, renal cyst infection.
Renal damage development rate factors: gender gene type, blood pressure, cyst size, gross hematuria number of episodes of urinary tract infection. Common for men than women rapid development PKDI gene caused symptoms as early and rapid development. Renal hypertension, can accelerate the development of kidney failure. In addition, the grand cysts, repeated episodes of gross hematuria and urinary tract infections are to speed up the elements of impaired renal function. On polycystic kidney disease must be treated early, the cyst control the smaller the better. Small cysts would not lead to hematuria due to break more easily crush the formation of kidney ischemia and hypoxia and thus lead to renal hypertension. Prevention of renal damage, inability to control the cysts increase measures.
The ordinary treatment of TCM on polycystic kidney disease only wait until the cyst increased to 5 cm to take the surgery, but surgical treatment is easily repeated, and risky. We are not in favor of surgical treatment, can take the way to cure disease outside of the traditional Chinese medicine to reduce the large cyst, small cysts are no longer increases, and to avoid duplication.
Radical treatment of Chinese medicine, disease outside the governance approach, TCM active substances penetrate the skin through the kidney area, targeted positioning, an indirect role in the lesion site, the expansion of the vascular wall, accelerate some of the blood circulation, and moving rapidly away cystic fluid. Together, the use of Chinese medicine active ingredients inactivate the cyst epithelial cells, increased its generation more cystic fluid and the intracapsular pressure drop. Purpose of the in vivo environment of cysts inside and outside pressure difference, so the cyst kept retraction useful in preventing cyst increases, basically to increase cyst crush, injury of the surrounding renal tissue, to reach the truly useful treatment .

2012-08-04

Treating PKD with Chinese Traditional Medicines


Polycystic kidney disease early detection and early treatment, the cyst will continue to increase with time, not only the kidney capsule by the stretch on the back discomfort, and cyst compression of normal renal structure, affect renal function or even the development of uremia. For the treatment of polycystic kidney disease are generally three ways: 1, Western puncture fluid curing surgery, but reduce the original cyst surrounding pressure in the postoperative, small cysts rapidly increased; 2, Western decortication surgery, with traumatic, also make a small cyst increases;, Chinese medical disease outside the rule of conservative treatment, there is no risk, you can gradually make the cyst back to the absorption, suppression and repair the abnormal growth of the tubule cells and their fibrous secretions
Chinese medicine treatment of polycystic kidney disease What kind of medicine? View of the drawbacks of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of renal cysts, the medical profession has developed a new type of Chinese medicine treatment methods - micro-based infiltration therapy of Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine through the micro-processing, medicinal components overflow fuller, more robust efficacy, and clinical validation. More importantly, the micro-based medicine penetration not oral therapy, but with drug penetration instrument issued by an electrical impulse promote penetration administration in the patient's lumbar region, for the treatment of a long cycle of polycystic kidney disease patients, may be exempted from long-term oral medicine, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
General in the cyst but also affect renal function, the doctor will recommend treatment of patients with, TCM conservative treatment in the cyst is still small when, but not like the patients thought it was brewed Chinese medicine or taking a lot of pills to treatment! instead of using the newly developed micro-based medicine penetrate therapy to treat micro-treatment of Chinese medicine through the skin penetration wall of blood vessels to dilate, to accelerate local blood circulation, quickly taken away by the cystic fluid at the same time, reduce capsule pressure, inhibition of cyst epithelial cells continue to secrete, to reduce the cyst fluid generation, so that the cyst continuous retraction, can effectively prevent cyst increases, reducing the damage of intrinsic renal cells for therapeutic purposes.

2012-08-02

Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary kidney disease due to multiple cysts in the cortex and medulla of the kidney, polycystic kidney disease is a result in many complications of the disease, disease treatment is very difficult in advance to detect the disease early treatment conducive to control the disease, polycystic kidney disease What are the common complications? listen to the introduction of the kidney specialists.
For many people who have polycystic kidney disease family history, it is necessary to know what are about the disease's complications. Understanding of this area, so that future in the face of this disease, better treatment, allowing the disease to get better control.
First of all, presumably a lot of people have polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary kidney disease, polycystic kidney complications is one of the most concern. Mainly the performance of multiple or numerous sizes fluid cysts in both kidneys. Deepening understanding of the scientific progress of this disease, the prognosis is significantly improved. The course of treatment often polycystic kidney complications. That polycystic kidney complications, what does?
1, the cyst infection: general many cases can cause kidney pain and tenderness, and fever. To identify this disease infection or pyelonephritis is not easily line gallium scan photography would be helpful at this time.

Hematuria: there is this aspect, but very few cases, there may be activities persistence of gross hematuria, and even life-threatening.
3, high blood pressure or repeated urinary tract infections and other complications, also need attention.
4, kidney stones: Under normal circumstances, the polycystic kidney back pain is generally dull prompted concurrent kidney stones, cramps and accompanied by gross hematuria.
Cerebral arterial circle Angioma: Under normal circumstances, we need to know complicated by the vascular tumor by 10% to 40%, often due to vascular aneurysm, cerebral hemorrhage further examination was found. In addition, the thoracic aortic aneurysm and valvular heart disease (such as valvular regurgitation and prolapse) are more common. May be associated with portal hypertension and alveolar dysplasia in infantile polycystic kidney disease.
6, multiple cysts of other organs: experts say, middle age found in polycystic kidney disease patients, about half have polycystic liver disease after the age of 60, about 70%. Is generally believed that their development is slower, and more about polycystic kidney disease 10 years later. The cyst expansion is made by the lost bile duct. In addition, pancreas and ovaries may be complicated by the cyst, colonic diverticulitis complicated by a higher rate.
Pyelonephritis: In addition to the above, in this regard is also a common complication of polycystic kidney disease, the reason is not clear. The symptoms of pus in urine with little or no. Smear or quantitative culture of diagnosis can be made. Citrate 67Ga scan photography to determine the site of infection, including the location of the abscess.

Treatments for the Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease

The treatment of polycystic kidney disease complications
A general treatment: most patients do not have to change their lifestyle and activity restriction. Right kidney was swollen, should pay attention to prevent abdominal injuries, and to avoid cyst rupture. When the patient is in renal failure and uremia
Should be treated accordingly principles
2, the cyst to the top decompression: this surgery to alleviate the oppression of the cysts of the renal parenchyma, and to protect the majority of the remaining renal unit from the extrusion and further damage, renal ischemic conditions have improved, some renal units have been restored , delayed development of the disease. The key to successful operation as early as possible to surgery, cyst decompression must be thorough, do not give up a small cyst and deep cyst decompression. Bilateral should be surgery, bilateral surgery time interval of more than six months. Advanced cases, such as existing renal dysfunction in azotemia, uremia, whether or not associated with high blood pressure, decompression therapy is no longer justified, the surgery to combat anti-may aggravate the condition.
3, Chinese medicine treatment: It has been reported Onyang kidney, spleen and Water treatment principles to achieve a certain effect, delaying the process.
4, dialysis and transplantation: enter the end-stage renal failure should be immediately to the dialysis treatment, the preferred hemodialysis. Kidney transplant survival rate of the polycystic kidney disease and other causes similar to the performer, but also diseases associated with increased postoperative processing difficulties, affecting transplantation.
The treatment of hematuria: hematuria, unless treated as soon as possible clear reasons should be reduced activity or bed rest. Dialysis or dialysis patients, such as recurrent severe and beyond the control of hematuria may consider the use of transcatheter renal artery embolization.
6, infection treatment: renal infection and cyst infection is the main complication of this disease, the general principle of combined antibiotics. 7, with upper urinary tract stones treatment: according to stone location and size of urinary tract stones principles of treatment.
8, treatment of hypertension: renal ischemia and renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system activation is the main reason of hypertension, antihypertensive drugs should so choose.