Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

2014-05-13 18:00

As we all know Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of Genetic Kidney Disease, there is no effective treatment for this disease. So it is very important to reduce the morbidity rate. The prognosis of PKD is closely related with patients condition.

Symptoms and age have a great relationship with the prognosis of PKD. According to a report, patients with no symptoms through their whole life, the average age is 70 years old. For Patients with symptoms, they just can live 4-13 years after appear symptoms.

Adult polycystic kidney disease will experience a long time to Uremic, the average age is 50 years. But if they appear other complications, the average age will reduce to 10 years.

Usually, men have a worse prognosis than women, but there are many other factors can effect the prognosis.Such as high blood pressure, times of pregnancy and the frequency of urinary tract infection.

So, for patients if they can control their complications well, they can live longer. If not, they will developed into uremia. After they accept dialysis or kidney transplant, they can live 10 years.Diet, exercise and living habit also can affect their prognosis. So do not ignore these aspects in your daily life.

Have you learned some useful knowledge from this text ? I hope the above informations can help you and your friends around you.

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