How many years can you live with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)? Simply
speaking from digital, it may be 5 years, 10 years or 20 years. There is no
exact figure for life span of PKD. It mainly depends on the treatment plan and
therapies. As for PKD patients, PKD is a genetic kidney disease. The genetic
risk of this disease is 50% and this disease is often accompanied by polycystic
liver and polycystic spleen.
With long time of cysts, the most common results have:
1 cyst did not rupture, but will increase the presence of cysts renal
ischemia and hypoxia, due to compensatory kidney function is very powerful,
symptoms may temporarily appear, but once an exception occurs, the progress will
be very rapid, abnormal renal function.
2 cysts increases, wall thinning, by external mechanical shock, or other
factors that affect very easy to break into the abdominal cavity causing acute
abdomen.
Second, polycystic kidney disease prognosis:
Polycystic kidney function in patients with normal rate of 71% at 50 years
old, 58 years old was 58%, at the age of 70 to 23 percent. Men with poor
prognosis, early onset of poor prognosis. Affect the other can be artificially
controlled prognostic factors are high blood pressure, number of pregnancies,
urinary tract infection secondary to the frequency of urinary tract infections,
etc. After dialysis and kidney transplantation did not enter the age of the
onset of symptoms in patients, especially those with renal insufficiency, can
only survive for 10 years, about every three years a fold rise in serum
creatinine, creatinine clearance rate half that, but if the blood elevated
creatinine never before, and no stones, infections and severe hypertension, can
survive 30 to 40 years. Polycystic kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant
patient, whose life basically similar to other dialysis and kidney transplant
patients.
Therefore, if you with PKD want to achieve a good prognosis, not only
effective treatment should be adopted they also need early treatment. Early
detection of cysts, early treatment of polycystic kidney disease.