Three Major Complications Of Polycystic Kidney Disease

The upward trend in the incidence of polycystic kidney disease, the cyst can sometimes bleeding, when suddenly, can cause pain, bleeding from the cyst wall may be associated with the cancer. On the positive treatment of polycystic kidney disease at the same time, it is effective to prevent, inhibit the occurrence of complications is very important. So what does polycystic kidney complications?

(1) urinary tract infection include: cystitis, pyelonephritis, cyst infection and renal abscess. Women, urinary tract equipment inspection of its risk factors. White blood cell casts in urine and response to conventional anti-infective therapy in favor of rapid diagnosis of pyelonephritis, and positive blood culture and local tenderness tend cyst infection, CT may be found to be infected cyst.

(2) kidney stones and renal calcification: When the pain got worse, twisted sterile hematuria or intraocular should think of the possibility of merger calculus.

(3) cyst cancer: renal cysts can become cancerous if still controversial. When a patient or kidney pain (and) change the law hematuria, weight loss, ESR, there does not comply with renal anemia or polycythemia occurs when kidney should be alert to the merger, in time for CT examination, if necessary need for renal artery angiography.


Located in the lower pole renal cyst and close the ureter, it can aggravate hydronephrosis, renal pelvis and urine of oppression can cause back pain. Such obstruction may also cause kidney infection.