Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease

In recent years, the morbidity of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) increases very fast and PKD has become the third factor that causes kidney failure according to the statistical data. However, most people are not very clear about symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Next let we see these symptoms together.
1. Renal cysts
Many PKD symptoms are closely related to the development of renal cysts. The number of cysts will increase with the development of patient’s condition.
2. Back pain and abdominal pain
Back pain and abdominal pain are most common symptoms in PKD patients, especially in the female patients.
3. Renal function damage
The decline of kidney enrichment function always shows the kidney function damage in the early stage. Most of PKD patients can still maintain the normal kidney function, even if they have been forty years old or sixty years old. Once the patient’s renal function begins to reduce, the drop speed of his glomerular filtration is about 4.4-5.5ml/min every year.
4. Hypertension
Hypertension is one of most common symptoms in the early stage of PKD. Hypertension is related to the kidney size and the number of cysts and it will rise with the increase of age. Hypertension can leads to the renal function damage.
5. Anemia
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients usually don’t have anemia, and the patient who has persistent hematuria may have mild anemia. The occurance of PKD patients’ anemia is later and milder than other patients’.
6. Gross hematuria
More than thirty percent of PKD patients have gross hematuria that is spontaneous or happens after strenuous exercise. The factors that cause gross hematuria are anginorrhoxis, stone, infection and canceration.
Polycystic Kidney Disease is a life-threatening disease. If you have one or more symptoms mentioned above, you should see a doctor as soon as possible. Early diagnosis and treatment can help you to recover.