Treatment for PKD

Treatment for PKD

　Conservative and supportive care can be taken unless there are unusual complications.

　　1. General measures
　　Pay attention to rest, avoid smoke, wine, tea, coffee and chocolate, requires a low salt diet when the patients have high blood pressure. Physical labor should be acted according to their body, when the cyst is large, avoid strenuous exercise and abdominal trauma. When the patient is in the stage of renal insufficiency, the patient needs a low protein diet.

　　2. Surgical Operation
　　There is no evidence that removal of the cyst or reduction of the compression of the cyst can improve renal function. If it is found that the large cyst cause further damage to kidney function, which can be removed. When the degree of renal insufficiency is at the risk of life, it should be considered for dialysis treatment or kidney transplantation.

　　3. Complication treatment

Pyelonephritis should be treated actively to prevent further damage to renal function. Incision and drainage should be performed in the cyst when infection. When one side renal bleeding is severe, the nephrectomy or renal artery embolism should be performed, and meanwhile the segmental artery embolization also can be taken. Concomitant diseases (such as tumors, obstructive stones) require surgical treatment.