Kidney Source
How to Shrink the Cyst With Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD)
The searching for the suitable kidney is more difficult than the transplant operation itself. It is good for the patients to find their relatives’ kidneys suitable to them, but they are not always so lucky. In most cases, they have to wait for the matching kidneys from other donators or even the dead persons. It usually needs a long time with the possibility that patients may die before they find the matching kidneys.
Nephrectomy in PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) and Transplanting
Not all patients are able to adopt kidney transplant
Kidney transplant is a surgical operation with some dangerous factors, so there are some patients who are unable to take this operation. They include the people intolerable to the operation psychologically or physically, such as patients with Chronic Heart Failure, persistent Phthisis, Duodenal Ulcer, Cancer, Hepatitis and other Acquired Immune Deficiency Diseases like Metastatic Tumors. As we all know, at late stages when Polycystic Kidney Disease deteriorates into Kidney Failure, patients commonly have weak immunity because of using hormone or immunosuppressive agents. They easily suffer from ulcers, infections and heart failure. Due to the frequent dialysis, their blood has poor ability in coagulation, which is dangerous in kidney transplant .How to Stop PKD From Growing After Kidney Transplant
Taking antiallergic medicines in whole life
After all the matching kidneys are allogenetic, the receptors will reject them instinctively. In older to protect the transplanted kidneys, the patients must take antiallergic medicines in their whole life, even though the operations is very successful. The damaged kidney is not removed commonly, so the lesions still stay in the patients, which might infect the transplanted kidney. The chronic immunoreaction and the unremoved disease like hyperlipidemia might damage the transplanted kidney. What’s worse, the long term of restraining immunity will arouse new complications. So kidney transplant may be unable to improve the life of some patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease.
