What are the symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Kidney cysts: Many symptoms of the patients with polycystic kidney are closely related with the development of renal cyst. Renal cortex and medulla exist in multiple cysts, ranging from a few millimeters to several centimeters in diameter, the size of the cyst, number gradually increased with the progression. The degree of male patients with renal cyst increase higher than female patients.

Pain: back or ribs abdominal pain are the most common symptoms of patients with polycystic kidney. with the age of growth, and cyst symptoms gradually are obvious, women are more common. Acute pain or sudden increased pain often prompts urinary tract obstruction and infection caused by cyst rupture hemorrhage, stone, or blood clot.

Hematuria: more than 90% of the patients have capsule hemorrhage or gross hematuria. Most are spontaneity, can also occur in vigorous exercise or after trauma. The reasons of blood in the urine have ruptured intracystic,stones, infection or cancer. Generally Hematuria is self-limited,and it will disappear in 2 ~ 7 days .If the bleeding persists for more than 1 week, or the patients older than 50 years old, need to rule out cancer.

High blood pressure: it is one of the most common early performance of polycystic kidney patients. Blood pressure of 50% young polycystic kidney patients with normal renal function is higher than 140/90 MMHG, and almost 100% had high blood pressure in patients with end-stage renal disease. High and low blood pressure and kidney size and how much the cyst is a proportional relationship, and will increase with the growth of age .

Renal function damage: early renal damage is often characterized by kidney enrichment function decline.During 40 ~ 60 years old,most of patients can maintain normal renal function;Once kidney began to decline, the descent velocity of glomerular filtration rateper year is about 4.4 ~ 4.4 ml/min,it is about 10 years from renal function damage to end-stage renal disease.

Others: 20% Polycystic kidney disease patients will have kidney stones, most are uric acid or calcium oxalate stones. Urinary tract and cyst infection is a common complication, and retrograde infection is the main pathway.Compared with the general population,the onset age of polycystic kidney patients with renal cell carcinoma is earlier , with obvious symptoms, and prone to bilateral sarcomatoid multicenter.

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