Polycystic kidney disease and multiple renal cysts are not the same thing

Although people eat and drink to wear a lot better than before, but the increasing incidence of various diseases, which is why? Experts point out that the culprit is people's bad habits, such as irregular meals, smoking, drinking, irregular work and rest and so on. Polycystic kidney disease in the Nephrology is a very common disease, then, how do we determine if they are suffering from the disease do? Here's a look.
Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary cystic kidney disease, which is substituted by large and small kidney cyst. Thus some people think and polycystic kidney cyst is a disease, especially multiple renal cysts and polycystic kidney as are balloon. In fact, multiple renal cysts and polycystic kidney disease must not be confused.
From the family point of view, there is typically a family history of polycystic kidney disease, there is infantile and adult type of points, infantile often due to kidney does not function, often die soon after birth. Adult more than 40 years after onset. And there was no family history of multiple renal cysts.
From a clinical performance, polycystic kidney disease patients without a medical examination if, after the 40-year-old will be a lot of low back pain, infection, hematuria, dysuria and other symptoms, and polycystic kidney disease patients with hypertension often. Many of multiple renal cysts also stumbled in the physical examination, and some patients have back pain performance, but does not have high blood pressure and other complications.
From the laboratory tests, the polycystic kidney disease patients urinalysis, renal function abnormalities will check, but multiple renal cysts various tests were normal.

From imaging, the CT showed polycystic kidneys covered with different sizes, countless cysts, kidney cysts were located. Multiple renal cysts despite multiple, but generally occurs in unilateral renal and number of cysts is relatively much less, rarely more than three cysts situation.

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital is located in Shijiazhuang city, capital of Hebei Province, which is adjacent to the capital of China, Beijing. It was founded in 1986 and his name has become more widely known in recent decades.....Read More