Polycystic Kidney Disease is a type of congenital kidney disorder. And during
the early stage of this disease, there are usually no obvious symptoms. With the
enlargement of the cysts, the cysts will gradually press the normal renal
tissues and damage the renal function, and then there will be a series symptoms
caused by the cysts. The typical symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease including
the following aspects:
1, backache or abdominal pain: this symptom is usually the first symptom for
many patients with this disease. This symptom may be sustained or be paroxysmal,
and it will be aggravated after overworking.
2, hematuria: this symptom is also one of the first symptoms. Hematuria can
be divided into gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria. There are about 50
percent of patients with this disease have the symptom of painless gross
hematuria.
3, abdominal mass: these masses are usually in the upper abdomen and the
sizes of them are different.
4, hypertension: hypertension is one of the most common symptoms of this
disease. This symptom may appear before the damage of the renal function or
after the damage of the renal function. What’s more, the hypertension may in
turn aggravate the patient’s condition.
5, renal insufficiency: with the enlargement of the cysts and the development
of this disease, there will be the symptom of renal insufficiency. The renal
function is obviously abnormal and the urine specific gravity is stable but
low.
6, frequent micturition and urgent urination: there are about 25 percent of
patients of this disease have the symptoms of frequent micturition, urgent
urination and other discomfort of urinary tract.
All of these symptoms of the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease should be
paid attention to. And because the appearance of the symptoms usually is late
than the pathology damage, once the patients have these symptoms, they should
determine the accurate causes and adopt treatment in time.