By asking many kinds of kidney diseases patients, we find out that the common
problem is that there is no symptom in early stage of kidney disease while the
illness condition is quite serious when the symptoms appear. Do Polycystic
Kidney Disease (PKD) patients really have no symptoms? The answer is no. Through
asking some disease symptoms of patients, we find out that they have s
smattering of knowledge. Just imagine how patients can find out the symptoms if
they don’t know symptoms. We will explain some early stage symptoms of
Polycystic Kidney Disease?
The mainly symptoms of PKD are mainly as follows:
1. Hypertension. Hypertension always occurs before the renal function damages
of PKD patients. The main reason of hypertension is that the oppression caused
by cysts will lead to renal ischemia and then make the secretion quality of
rennin increase. More than 50% of patients have high blood pressure when the
kidney function is still normal. However, when kidney function declines, the
rate of hypertension is much higher.
Abdominal mass. In the early stage of PKD, patients may have not much feeling
for this symptom. However, with the continuous increase of cysts, 60% to 80% of
patients can touch the swollen kidney. Thus, the swollen kidney may be the main
reason for patients seeing a doctor. In general, the larger kidneys, the worse
kidney function.
Hematuria. Once patients have hematuria, the main reason is kidney problems.
The hematuria of PKD mainly appears microscopic hematuria and gross hematuria.
It attacks in a circle. When it attacks, patients always feel backache. In
addition, strenuous exercise, wound and infection may induce or aggravate this
condition. The pathogenesis of hemorrhage is that there are many arteries below
the cyst wall. The increase of pressure or concurrent infection will lead to
cysts wall vessel rupture and bleeding because of excessive force. The reason
for the discomfort of waist and abdominal is that the increase and expansion of
kidney cysts which will make the tension of renal capsule increase. And then the
kidney pedicle will be affected. The surrounding organs will also be
oppressed.
Waist and abdomen pain. PKD patients hung different sized cysts on inside and
outside kidney. There are full of cysts liquid in kidney, which leads to the
increase quantity of water content and then kidney will be heavier. Kidney
tenesmus will cause waist and abdomen pain. Patients may feel dull pain. If the
cysts bleed or patients get infection, the pain will aggravate suddenly.
Besides, if stones combine or blood clots block the urinary tract, patients may
have renal colic.
The above is the introduction of early stage symptoms of PKD. With a good
understanding on the early stage symptoms, patients can notice the disease
timely and take a timely treatment. Furthermore, because PKD is a kind of
hereditary disease with familial aggregation, someone in the family who gets PKD
should check up immediately. Once the disease is diagnosed, patients should take
a timely treatment.