2013-05-30

The Symptoms of Children Polycystic Kidney Disease


Children Polycystic Kidney Disease is rare and difficult to be treated. It swells because that lots of cysts are full of liquid. That makes the volume of kidney increase and the surface has the rugged protuberances. There have faint yellow serum in cysts. The increase of cysts can oppress the renal parenchyma and injury kidney function.When patients are checked to be Children Polycystic Kidney Disease, they should have treatments in time, in this case, uremia could be prevented efficiently.
What are the symptoms of Children Polycystic Kidney Disease? It is a dominant inherited disease, some children may get it as soon as he was born, but in general have no obvious symptoms until they are about 40 years old. Nothing is absolute, some children can also show symptoms, so parents need to notice it. If parents know the symptoms of Children Polycystic Kidney Disease, they can judge whether children get disease and it is severe or not.
● Bellyache
In general , it is a sense of pressure of the small of the back, sometimes very intense. It can be continuous or intermittent attack. Sometimes it can be abdominal pain and pains can extend to back, chest, the upper abdomen or groin. Pains can be aggravated by movements and sedentariness and patients are forced to lie in bed.
● Liver cyst
Some patients may be accompanied by liver cysts, which seldom show symptoms. Only in the physical examinations, hepatomegaly can be checked out. The incidence of pancreatic cyst is 10% and splenic cyst is 5% and thyroid gland, ovary, epididymis cysts may also appear.
From the above we know that there have chances to find out the abnormalities of children, it needs parents to be careful and cautious. Children Polycystic Kidney Disease has the possibilities to get deteriorative, even can develop to uremia which is a big menace to life.
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2013-05-27

The Diagnosis of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease


Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease is one of the three main types of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). The other two types are Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and Autosomal recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease. Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease is brought forward first time by Dunnill in 1977s. It is identified as cystic lesion in kidneys of patients who are suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease without cysts in the beginning. At present, there is no agreement on standards in diagnosing Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, but three basic principles can be assured.

Cystic lesions are found in ultrasound examination or CT

As patients with Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease usually have no obvious symptoms, regular checkups are important for patients with Kidney Failure or on dialysis for over three years. At present, ultrasound examination or CT is enough sensitive and high-resolution that they can found cysts of 3cm. On being found, three cysts, 2cm to 3cm, have existed in kidneys at least.

Excluding Polycystic Kidney Disease

More than 90 percent cases are Polycystic Kidney Disease which is hereditary. Patients with PKD usually have family members with the same disease. However, Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease is not genetic. The patients have no similar history of cysts in their families. What’s more, PKD is associated with enlarged kidneys and cyst formation in other parts of the body. In Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, the kidneys are normal sized or smaller and cysts do not form in other parts of the body.

The possibly of canceration

Polycystic Kidney Disease will not develop into renal carcinoma, but about 16 percent cases of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease may deteriorate into canceration. In renipuncture, cystic cells can be distinguished from cancerous cells. Clinically, symptoms in Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease are flank pain, blood in urine and lumps in waist, but the obvious symptoms of Kidney Cancer are fever, anemia and faster ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), etc. which are also often mistaken as Uremia in diagnosis.

As for patients who want to receive kidney transplant, they are necessary to take tests for Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, because antiallergic drugs like immunosuppressive agents probably make those cysts become malignant cells after transplantation.
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2013-05-26

What Discomfort does Kidney Patients Would Experience during Hemodialysis?


With the advances in hemodialysis technology, the complications of hemodialysis are becoming less and less, but some patients still feel some discomfort during or after hemodialysis.
The major symptoms include weakness, fatigue, headache, nausea, vomiting and muscle spasm. These symptoms are mainly caused by the changes of the ingredients in theextracellular fluid during hemodialysis. Fine management of diet and weight can contribute to lessen these symptoms.
Some kidney patients may come across symptoms like high blood pressure, low blood pressure, chest pain, arrhythmia because they already have had high blood pressure, malnutrition, anemia, enlarged heart, hydropericardium.After a period of dialysis, the symptoms would be greatly relieved.
Patients with high blood pressure should use antihypertensive with the guidance of the doctors. In daily lives, they should control their weight and their diet should be light.
Few patients have had transient chill and fever, which should be taken care of by medical staff. While most of the patients would not experience any discomfort during dialysis.
Hypotension is common during dialysis, especially during senior citizens with low weight. This may be caused by fast dehydration, or long-term malnutrition, poor cardiac function, functional disorder of vegetative nervous system. For patients who experience hypotension frequently, they should avoid or lessen the weight gain during dialysis and eat little food.
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2013-05-22

Bubbles in Urine and Proteinuria of PKD


Proteinuria is very common for PKD patients, however, when they find the bubbles in their urine, does it mean that they are suffering from proteinuria? Proteinuria shows up foams or bubbles in urine, but as a matter of fact, bubbles in urine is not equal to proteinuria. There are some cases can also cause bubbles when urinating.
● When someone takes too much protein at a time or have too little water, bubbles in urine may appear. Also the angle and speed when urinating can also cause bubbles in urine.
● If the urine is high in alkalinity and contains some glucose or mineral salt, which leads to the formation of foams.
● If one takes strenuous physical activity; has emotional fluctuation or standing for a long time or one is infected, for example, has a cold or a fever, bubbles in urine may also appear. However, PKD patients is not suggested to take strenuous activities for fear of the rupture of cysts.
The cases above are normal and people don't have to worry about it, for it can disappear naturally within several or 24 hours.
For PKD patients, the bubbles in urine is very possible to indicate proteinuria. With the enlargement of cysts, these cysts will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and damage the filtration membrane of glomeruli, which can cause the protein is leaked out and enter the urine, so proteinuria appears. The appearance of proteinuria can tell that the kidney function has been damaged severely.
PKD patients should take the efficient treatment to repair the damaged glomeruli filtration membrane in time rather than take medicine curing the symptoms when bubbles in urine happens. For proteinuria can aggravate the condition and quicken the pace of deterioration that PKD develops into Renal Failure.
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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.

2013-05-15

What should I do to the cyst on kidney of 7cm?


First, the patient must find out whether the cyst is PKD or not. If it is only kidney cyst, you can take surgeries or other treatments to absorb fluid and shrink the cysts, because kidney cyst will not arouse other severe complications. If the cyst belongs to PKD, it will be troublesome for PKD will damage renal function and cause Kidney Failure or other complications like cerebral aneurysms and stroke. What’s worse, any surgery is incapable to really remove the cyst and restrain reoccurrence of the cyst. The effective treatment is to shrink the cyst, protect the surviving renal function and then recover the damaged renal function to a certain degree.

2013-05-14

Some Causing Factors of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease


Although pathogenesis of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease (ACKD), most scholars agree on some factors which might open the mechanism of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease. In clinical practices, Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease will be induced when creatinine clearance rate (Ccr) is less than 52-71ml/min. Scholars consider it might be concerned with five factors in follow.
The lack of blood and oxygen
As Kidney Diseases or Kidney Failure develops, renal tissues will be in severe lack of blood and oxygen, which might arouse changes of hemodynamics and promote cysts to grow. It is reported that patients with renalarteriolosclerosis have high risk of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, for kidneys seriously demand of blood and oxygen in renalarteriolosclerosis.
Blocking in kidney tubules
Urine usually decreases among patients with Kidney Diseases or Kidney Failure, which weakens the ability of kidney tubules washing away calcium salt and necrotic cells and form cylindruria. Cylindruria will arise blood pressure in kidney tubules, which promote urine to deposit and cause cysts. B2 micro globulin makes microlithiasis block kidney tubules, causing renal cysts.
Dialysis
During dialysis, there might be some waste products not removed like polyamine, depositing in body and causing cysts to form in the kidneys. With carcinogenicity, dimethyl nitrosamine (DMN) and disinfectants in the water used in dialysis might stimulate cysts to grow in kidneys.
Renal function decreasing
At the End Stage Kidney Failure, few normal nephrons are left, making mesangial cells and epithelial cells proliferate to make up for the lost renal function. Decreasing glomeruli filtration rate (GFR) will promote the secretion of growth hormone and parathyroid hormone, which both boost proliferation and transformation of renal tissues. In other words, decreasing renal function plays an important role in forming cysts.
Production of certain substances
In researching Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, scholars found that the severity of tubulointerstitial lesion is in line with extracellular matrix proliferating. They think the some abnormal constituents break the normal structure of renal tissues, causing cysts. They agree on excessive nitric oxide promoting canceration of epithelial cells which concerns the growth of cysts in kidneys of patients with Kidney Disease or Kidney Failure.

2013-05-12

Is PKD Patient Curable Through Micro-chinese Medicine osmotherapy


1. Is PKD patient curable through Micro-chinese Medicine osmotherapy ?
Micro-Chinese Medicine osmotherapy can shrink the cysts, prevent the cysts from growing, and help the kidneys self-heal, then kidney function will be improved. Although there are still small cysts on the kidneys, patients won't have clinical sysptoms, and their daily life and work won't be affected. If you want to remove those cysts totally, sorry to say no therapy can cure PKD totally, because it's a kind of hereditary disease.
2. What is the percentage of success?
Around 95%.
3. What will be the total expenses ? ( Including Dr fees, Hospital expenses etc - in dollar ).
Generally, patients need to pay 3000 USD as the deposit as soon as they arrive to our hospital, it's enough for the cost of first week in our hospital, including the cost of medical tests, treatments, room charge, medicine, doctors and experts consultation, and nurse service. Patients need to do medical tests firstly in the first three days, then treatment plan will be made out based on the test results, then doctor in charge will explain the treatment plan to patient and tell him if he follows the treatment plan what treatment results he will get, then if patient is satisfied with the treatment plan, he just needs to pay the money before each treatment step.
So as for your condition, I can't tell you what will be the total expenses, only after the treatment plan is made out we will know the cost. Pls take 25,000 USD here, based on the similar patients like you, their cost is around 20,000 USD to 25,000 USD, pls note it also contain the cost of medicines used at home for two months, but it doesn't contain the cost of meals. We will offer a separate room for you, in the room there is kitchen with cooker, then you can cook by yourself in the room or book food from canteen or restaurants near our hospital. In the room we can offer two beds, so one person can come here together with you and live together in this room.
4. Is there any package for PKD treatment ?
Yes, when you go home, you need to take two-month Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy home to do consolidation treatment at home for two months, in order to enhance the treatment effects. Pls don't worry it, we have posted medicines to other foreign patients before, we know how to deal with it.
5. If so, What is the amount ? ( in dollar )
It has been contained in the total cost.
6. What is the full address with province name, Airport name, pincode ?
Our hospital is located in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China, the ZIP code is 050000.
You can fly to Beijing Airport, then you can choose to take train or take a car from there to our hospital. If you take train, it takes two hours, I'll tell you the detailed route, if you take car, it takes four hours, we can take a car to pick you up at Beijing Airport.
7. What will be the duration of the treatment ?
One month.
8. How we will continue after post treatment ?
My colleagues who work in the Return-Visit Department will keep in touch with you to learn about your recovery condition and offer some advice.
9. What are the formalities ?
You need to send me the copy of your passport and your partner's passport, then I'll send you the invitation letter of our hospital to help you apply for visas. Then you can book airticket and tell me your arriving time. When would you like to come here for treatments?
10. How can we overcome the language problem ?
We can speak English, and when you stay in our hospital, one doctor, one nurse and one interpreter will be in charge of your daily treatment and life.
I have explained all of your questions, waiting for your reply.