Patients with polycystic kidney who have severe decline in renal function and progress to end-stage renal disease need renal replacement therapy, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. Whether polycystic kidney needs renal transplantation treatment should be chosen on an individual basis.
In the early stage of polycystic kidney, there are only a few cysts in the kidney, but later develops to the whole kidney is full of cysts of different sizes, compressing the renal parenchyma, so that the renal units are reduced, and the condition progresses with the gradual decline of renal function, and the blood creatinine, urea nitrogen, and uric acid are increased.
Polycystic kidney disease progresses to end-stage renal disease need to take replacement therapy. Patients with polycystic kidney disease end-stage renal disease can choose peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis or renal transplantation treatment according to individual circumstances. The need of kidney transplantation for polycystic kidney should be decided according to individual situation and availability of kidney source.
Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease should go to the hospital in time and choose the treatment plan under the guidance of professional doctors.