2014年1月7日星期二

The symptoms for polycystic kidney disease

PKD is a common hereditary kidney disease, featuring as all kinds of cysts occur on the kidneys. Cysts become larger and larger, and kidneys function are damaged finally, which can lead to end-stage renal failure. The symptoms for PKD include:
1 Anemia
Most patients will experience an anemia process from light to heavy accompanied with nocturnal enuresis. The symptom is related to the decrease of erythrogenin and the decline of renal functions.
2 waist and abdominal discomfort
Your waist and abdomen have tension, and sometimes the pain is fierce. This breaks out intermittently or persistently. It manifested as stomachache sometimes, the pain will emit to the upper abdomen, groin, back and chest. The pain can aggravate because of running, sedentariness and activities.
3 Elevation of blood pressure
High blood pressure is a common symptom of PKD, and it happens before the decline of renal functions. It is also accompanied with headache, swirl, and it has close relations with hyperfunction of renin-angiotensin system.
4 Goiters on belly
When kidney increase to a degree, bossing can be felt on each side of kidneys, and the bossing can move with breath.
5 Urine abnormal
This characterized by proteinuria or blood urine, it is an early symptom of PKD. The main manifestation is proteinuria, which is related to barrier function of Glomerulus. Blood urine is a common way to test if you have suffered from PKD.
6 Enlarged kidneys
Nephropathia differs from other side, the sizes are variant, kidney can bestrewed enterocoelia, there are many bossings on surface of kidney, and anomaly of shape happens, irregularity will also, and it toughed hard.
7 Renal insufficiency

Individual patients suffer from kidney failure at teenage. A few people will develop kidney dysfunction before 40 years old. At 70, about half of the people can keep functions good. But patients with high blood pressure will develop into kidney failure more quickly. There are several patients can keep functions good at the age of 80.

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