Polycystic Kidney Disease Life Expectancy

What is the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) life expectancy? It is a common topic that people would like to know the life span if they are diagnosed by a certain kidney disease. Here let us see what experts in Beijing Tongshantang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine say about Polycystic Kidney Disease life expectancy.

Before talking about the Polycystic Kidney Disease Life expectancy, we would like to introduce some basic knowledge about PKD. As a genetic disease, there is no a cure for this kidney disorder. Generally speaking, patients with PKD will have high blood pressure in 30s, high creatinine level in 40s and kidney failure in 50s. The appearance of high creatinine tells more than 50% of kidney function has been lost. The gradual progression of condition makes patients are wondering the Polycystic Kidney Disease life expectancy.

It is impossible to give an exact answer to Polycystic Kidney Disease life expectancy, that is because it can be affected by many factors such as patients’ age, what treatment they will choose when condition develops kidney failure, whether there are some obvious complications and their attitude to the disease and so on.

Once PKD develops kidney failure, in many countries, dialysis or kidney transplant will be the only choice. And they can really help patients live longer, especially kidney transplant. But some patients die during dialysis treatment, and waiting for a donor is not an easy thing, it may take years.

However, we can achieve improving Polycystic Kidney Disease life expectancy by treating this kidney disorder effectively. Experts do believe that the most important steps in PKD treatment are to shrink cysts and improve kidney function further. Nowadays, the Natural PKD Treatment in China: Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy brings patients new hopes.

At the early stage of PKD, proper treatment can help patients effectively avoid dialysis and kidney transplant and live a normal life; if it develops kidney failure and you still have some remaining kidney function, then we are here helping you improving Polycystic Kidney Disease life expectancy.