Why Can PKD Cause High Blood Pressure in stage 3 CKD

2014-06-02 10:55

Polystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of hereditary kidney disease, if it can not be controlled well that will induce a series of complications and high blood pressure is one of them. Why can PKD cause hypertension ? Let us have a look at together.

Why can PKD cause high blood pressure in stage 3 CKD ? The mainly reason is the growing cysts add stress to renal tissue and blood vessel in it that will decrease the blood flow to kidney. Then the kidney will lack in blood and oxygen and induce hypertension. Some of the patients will be cured after operation but some can not be reversed. The increasing blood pressure can induce heart enlargement and heart failure . Some of patients may fall into renal insufficiency even uremia ,if you don’t take action in time you will have life threatening.

High blood pressure induced by PKD is different from primary hypertension, so the key point to cure it is to shrink the cysts and restrain the growing speed of it. That can be helpful to ease the burden of renal and prevent the progress of fibrosis. So that can get rid of hypertension from its root.

In one word, with the cysts increasing, the high blood pressure will occurs as one of the complication. So if you want to decrease the high level of hypertension, you should cure the disease itself not the symptoms. Otherwise, your disease will get worse and then it is more difficult to control it.

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