Symptoms and Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a typical chronic genetic kidney problem. With different illness conditions, diet, nursing care,treatment method and living style, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients usually have different symptoms and prognosis. Now, let's have a look about symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in different stages.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in early stage
PKD patients may suffer no symptoms in early stage. PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) affects kidney function with the enlargement of kidney cysts. In early stage, kidney cysts are usually very small and cause no kidney damages. In this case, patients always feel nothing different and uncomfortable. For people with PKD in early stage, if they can avoid kidney damages with medical treatment, their prognosis will be very good as they can live a normal life with normal kidney function.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in developing stage
In cases of PKD, more and more cysts appear over time. These cysts enlarge and oppress surrounding kidney tissues, which make these kidney tissues unable in displaying function. Under such a condition, various symptoms like high blood pressure, back pain, blood urine, enlarged kidney, repeated infection and proteinuria will appear. At that time,although kidney function has been impaired, if PKD patients stop the progression of PKD, their prognosis can be improved greatly.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in advanced stage
When PKD develops to advanced stage, patients will be at high risk to develop complications like kidney stone, polycystic liver and brain aneurysm. In this stage, effective treatment will help to lower your risk of developing these terrible complications.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in kidney failure stage
One end stage kidney failure is diagnosed, patients will be asked to start dialysis or kidney transplant, both of which can help to clear toxins from the blood. Dialysis and kidney transplant are the two most traditional medical methods for kidney failure patients to improve their life expectancy and prolong their life span,but here I want to say, although dialysis and kidney transplant are helpful to some extent, they are not the only two options for PKD patients, as an alternative treatment has been created to help PKD patients recently.