Operation Effect on Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Surgical operations can relieve the pressure from large cysts on kidneys. But when the pressure from large cysts is reduced, small cysts can be in a more relax environment with less pressure, which make these small cysts grow rapidly, compressing renal parenchyma for another time. Besides, operation trauma is also a great damage to kidneys.

When single cyst is larger than 4cm, operation is usually considered. Patients who suffer from early and middle stage Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) can choose Cyst Decortication which can prevent remained healthy nephron from being damaged further and relieve renal ischemia condition. By this way, part nephron can be recovered, which delays the development of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). But for patients suffering from end stage Polycystic Kidney Disease, this operation can play very little role. Therefore, if patients suffer from rapidly developing illness condition and obvious symptoms with reclined renal function and continuous High Blood Pressure, they should accept operation as early as possible. Bilateral operations should have duration of 3 to 6 months.

Advantages and disadvantages of Cyst Decortication to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease:

Advantages: Cyst Decortication can prevent remained healthy nephron from compressing and being damaged further, which can relieve the condition of renal ischemia, recover function of part nephron and delay illness development. It has the function of reducing blood pressure, relieving pain, improve renal function and living quality as well as delaying the process of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) developing into End Stage Renal Failure.

Disadvantages: operation can eliminate some larger cysts effectively, but when larger cysts are removed, there will be more space left for smaller cysts, which can make smaller cysts grow more rapidly. With these smaller cysts growing, they will damage kidneys for another time. For this reason, the largest disadvantage of operation is that it can only treat the surface problems instead of treating the disease itself.

As for patients suffering from end stage Polycystic Kidney Disease, Cyst Decortication can play very limited role in treating this disease. Instead, this operation can worsen renal function damage further. Recent years, Laparoscopy Cyst Decortication is used to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. But because the countless number and various size of these cysts as well as the limitation of minimal invasive surgery, this operation can not reduce pressure of all these cysts. For this reason, this treatment is not taken as routine treatment. It is only suitable to deal with some larger cysts of Polycystic Kidney Disease in order to improve part of renal function and relieve related symptoms.

In one word, operation can not treat Polycystic Kidney Disease from its primary cause which refers to Renal Fibrosis. This is also the reason why Haematuria and cysts relapse frequently. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy which can block Renal Fibrosis is suggested to Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients.


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Be Aware of Harms Caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should be aware of harms of Polycystic Kidney Disease, and why? In daily life, many children are found symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), but most parents do not realize the harms that caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease and they pay no attention on it. However, harms caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease are serious. Due to kinds of symptoms, patients can not live a normal life as others.

Harms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD): the only harm of Simple Kidney Cyst is to develop into malignant cyst with tiny chance. But Polycystic Kidney Disease causes different harms. In the process of cysts growing, renal inherent cell injury may appear. Then harms caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) appear, which refers to Chronic Renal Failure and Uremia, with Renal Insufficiency more common among clinical PKD cases.

When Renal Insufficiency happens, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients can get symptoms such as Hypertension, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms at different degree. In the early stage, Polycystic Kidney Disease usually do not pay enough attention to this disease until this disease develops into Renal Insufficiency, or even End Stage Renal Failure and Uremia. At this moment, accumulated toxin in body can not be excreted out of body normally. With more and more toxin accumulation, patients have to accept Dialysis.


Therefore, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should improve their awareness of their disease. If patients can learn more about this disease and pay more attention on their daily diet and care, they can prevent Renal Insufficiency happening effectively.

Cases of Polycystic Kidney Disease Complicated with Hypertension

Patient: Zhao Hai
Gender: Male
Age: 48 years old
Province: Sichuan Province
Main Cause: patient has been suffered from back ache for more than one year and vertigo for 2 months.

Diagnosis: Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), Nephrotic Hypertension, Nephrotic Anemia.

Patient’s condition when he went to our hospital: Heart Rate: 84/min, heart beat is regular and strong without heart murmur. Abdomen is plain and there is no pressing pain. Patients feel painful when they are knocked bilateral kidney region.

Test Result: Blood Pressure, 170/110mmHg; Creatinine, 625μmol/L; Blood Urea Nitrogen, 14.5mmol/L; Hemoglobin, 65g/L.

Through Type-B Ultrasonic: left kidney, 19.3×6.1×5.3cm, with many cysts inside; right kidney, 18.5×5.9×5.1cm, with many cysts inside.

Patient had a low appetite and felt tasteless.

Treatment: after hospitalization, Western Medicine is used to enrich blood and excrete toxin with the purpose of treating symptoms, and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is taken to treat primary kidney damage. After three-day treatment, symptom of vertigo disappears. Patient has a better appetite. After fifteen-day treatment, symptom of back ache is relieved and patient has a ruddy appearance.
Blood Pressure is tested for 140/90mmHg.

Secondary examination after 20 days later: creatinine, 402μmol/L; Blood Urea Nitrogen, 11.3mmol/L; Hemoglobin, 80g/L. through Type-B Ultrasonic examination: left kidney, 18.5×5.7×5.1cm; right kidney, 18.1×5.6×5cm.


Experts Comment: discomforts of Anemia, Hypertension, low appetite and other symptoms are caused by cysts which can compress Kidney. So the basic problem is cystic pressure on surrounding tissues. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) starting with repairing damaged kidney with the purpose of treating primary causes. Once the root cause, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), is relieved, the complications caused by it will disappear gradually.

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Be Inherited Certainly

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) be inherited certainly? Simply, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of hereditary disease indeed. It can be inherited, but not with 100% possibility. The hereditary feature of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) can be introduced as follows:

Firstly, both male and female can get this disease with equal incidence. Secondly, if one of parents has Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), each of their children may get this disease at the possibility of 50%, and this number will increase to 75% if both parents have this disease. Thirdly, children who do not have this disease do not carry cyst gene. Even when they marry opposite sex person who do not have Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), their children will not get this disease, so do their skipped generation. Patients who get this disease through gene mutation instead of parent gene are rarely seen.

Actually, some people have a familial history of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), but they are not tested out this disease when they are more than 20 years old. Most people are confused by this condition. Does it mean these people do not inherit this disease and even in the future they will not get this disease? In fact, it is not correct. Because Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) usually happens when patients are 30 to 50 years old, and maybe few cases are earlier. So as for people who have a familial history of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), they should go to hospital for body check regularly. Once abnormality is found through Type-B Ultrasonic examination, patients should accept treatment actively.


Clinical evidence shows that: the key of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) aggravation is that this disease is not controlled effectively in the early stage. As long as patients accept proper treatment actively, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients can have a longer life even with disease.

Tests That Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients Need

Knowing more about tests items that Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients need to accept is helpful for patients to keep a steady mental condition when they are accepting these tests. Due to complex condition of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), many tests are needed to make a diagnosis. For this reason, it is necessary for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients to learn more about these tests.

Ⅰ. Routine Urine Test: seldom abnormality can be found in early stage, but microscopic Haematuria can be found in middle or late stage. Some patients have Albuminuria because cysts compress glomerulus which may reduce glomerular filtrating rate. When this disease is complicated with Stones and infections, White Blood Cells and pyocyte can be found in urine.

Ⅱ. Urine osmotic pressure test: even if there is only very few cysts in kidneys in the early stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease, manifestation of kidney concentration damage can be found, showing that this damage is not only related with renal structure injury. It may also be related with renal slow reaction to antidiuretic hormone. Kidney concentration ability decreases before glomerular filtration rate decline.

Ⅲ. Serum creatine is increasing progressively with renal compensatory ability losing. Creatinine clearance rate is a relatively sensitive index.

Ⅴ. IVP examination shows deformation of renal pelvis and renal calices. Renal pelvis and renal calices are in strange spiderlike shape, with plain and wide renal calices and thin and long renal pelvis neck.

Ⅵ. Through Type-B Ultrasonic examination, a large number of shadows can be found in bilateral kidney region.

Ⅶ. CT examination shows bilateral kidney enlargement in lobulated shape, and many cysts with thin cyst wall and fluid inside can be found.


Once Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients are diagnosed, they should accept treatment actively so as not to delay illness treatment and cause kidney damage. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is suggested to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. This treatment can treat this disease starting with blocking Renal Fibrosis, repairing injured kidney. It has proved by clinical practice that Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has it distinctive effect on treating Polycystic Kidney Disease.

How Does Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Happen

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of genetic Kidney Disease, mainly caused by gene deletion. This disease can be divided into Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease and Infant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Well then, what factors can cause this two type Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

Ⅰ. Causes of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease:

Normally, Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease is caused by deletion of 16 chromosome, or sometimes by deletion of 4 chromosome occasionally. It belongs to autosomal dominant inheritance with 100% penetrance. Therefore, children can inherit this disease at 50% possibility if one of their parents has gene deletion.

Ⅱ. Causes of Infant Polycystic Kidney Disease:

Infant Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of autosomal recessive inheritance, which means that only both parents have gene of Polycystic Kidney Disease, their children can get this disease with incidence of 25%. In Infant Polycystic Kidney Disease, cyst cavity is in a size of needle head, and there is very little renal tissue among cysts. With cysts growing, renal parenchyma can atrophy due to pressure from cysts. For this reason, medulla and cortex can not develop fully.
Yellow brow mucous, abscess or blood liquid can be found in cyst cavity. Besides, cysts are isolated with renal pelvis.

During the process of embryo forming, due to action of various factors, gene mutation which causes Polycystic Kidney Disease happens. Though this condition seldom happens, it still has the possibility. Therefore, some Polycystic Kidney Disease patients can have no parents’ hereditary history.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is suggested to Polycystic Kidney Disease patients. Compared with Western Medicine treatment, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) starting with shrinking cysts and repairing injured kidney. Through many years of clinical practice, it has been proved that Micro-Chinese Medicine has a significant effect on treating Polycystic Kidney Disease. It has helped many Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients live a normal life.


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Daily Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients

Knowing about symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) can be beneficial to timely diagnosis. Once patients know more about this disease, they will cooperate with doctors actively, which is helpful to get a better prognosis. Well then, what symptoms can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients get?

Firstly, Hypertension appears frequent among symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), happening before renal function decline. Besides, it has close relationship with excessive activity of renin-angiotensin system. Therefore, once Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients have increasing blood pressure, they should be cautious about it and take timely body check, because Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is not formed in one day. Hypertension is one of signals appeared before Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) happens, so if patients pay high attention to it and take proper treatment, it will lay a good foundation for the future treatment.

Secondly, Anemia: most Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients suffer from Anemia from light to heavy, usually accompanied by nocturnal urination. This symptom is always related with renal function decline and decrease of erythrogenin secreted by kidney.

Thirdly, discomfort or concealed pain on waist and abdomen: this symptom usually happens in the early stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Exercise, long-term sitting and tiredness can cause pressure on patients back and waist, causing continuous or intermittent sharp pain. It is usually caused by kidney enlargement or increasing kidney capsular tensility.

Fourthly, abdominal masses: when kidney enlarges to a certain degree, masses with various sizes can be touched on unilateral or bilateral upper abdomen, moving with breath. Pressing pain can be felt when there is an infection at the same time.


All above symptoms are common among Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients. Due to individual body condition, each patient may have different symptoms. When Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients choose a treatment, they should communicate with their doctor actively in order to decide a correct and proper treatment, which can help patients recover better.