The four most common causes of Kidney Failure are Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), Diabetes, Hypertension and infections. Here let's discuss how does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause Kidney Failure.
As a genetic disease, PKD can not be cured with current medical technique. The most three common treatment methods to treat PKD are medicines treatment (pain killer and inflammatory medicines, etc), dialysis treatment and kidney transplant.
At the early stage of PKD, patients may take some medicines to diminish inflammation and kill pain. However, these cannot prevent the growth of their cysts. When the enlarged cysts in patients' kidneys grow big enough to damage kidney tissues, they are at risk of Kidney Failure. When their kidney tissues are severely damaged by cysts, they may experience Kidney Failure.
After patients suffer from Kidney Failure, they have to receive dialysis so as to help their damaged kidneys remove toxin and waste from their body. However, patients' damaged kidneys are still not repaired and the growth of the cysts is still not controlled. With the unceasing growth of cysts, their kidneys may be damaged completely.
