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What Is the Heritability of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a common genetic disease with a high heritability. However, some parents do not have a scientific understanding of PKD so they do not know exactly if their disease will pass down to their children and what the specific heritability is.
Posted on Dec-25-2011
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How to Prevent Polycystic Kidney Developing into Renal Failure
Renal failure is the severest result of Polycystic Kidney Disease. If it does not develop into renal failure, patients with polycystic kidney will live as normal people.
Posted on Dec-20-2011
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Can You Stop Dialysis Once You Start
Can I stop dialysis once I start? All patients on dialysis must be concerned with this issues very much. Although dialysis is an important substitutive therapy for patients with Renal Failure, it can cause many side effects. Therefore, many patients hold a rejective attitude to dialysis. In fact, whether the patients can stop dialysis is up to what treatment and when they begin to adopt treatment.
Posted on Dec-17-2011
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The Effect of Micro-Chinese Medicine for Kidney Disease
With Hypertension and Diabetes becoming common diseases among people, kidney damage becomes a big problem also. Poor lifestyle and eating habits lead to all kinds of diseases and many of them can cause kidney damage. People are afraid of kidney disease because there is no good treatment for it, especially when it develops to end stage, the only way in western medicine may be dialysis or kidney transplant.
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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The Common Causes of Secondary Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic Syndrome is not an isolated disease, but a syndrome characterized with serious edema, large amount of proteinuria, hyperlipemia and hypoproteinemia. It includes Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Secondary Nephrotic Syndrome. The common causes of Secondary Nephrotic Syndrome are as follows:
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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When Is the Right Time to Treat PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease)
As PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) is a genetic kidney disease, a lot of people are born with it. They just confused when is the right time to treat PKD so that they can get a better prognosis. Experts say patients can choose to treat PKD at the following time.
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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A Symptom of PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease): Hematuria (Blood in Urine)
When red blood cells are found in urine, we can say one presents hematuria. Hematuria is often the first sign that remind patients with PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) go and have a check.
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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Can Serum Creatinine Level Reflect Renal Function Accurately?
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a chronic genetic disease. As the cysts enlarge with age, they will oppress the neighboring kidney tissues thus causing Renal Failure. As kidney has strong sufficient compensatory capacity, the patients do not have symptoms in the early time. Many patients think that if their serum creatinine keeps in the normal range, their renal function must be also normal. In fact, this idea is wrong. Although serum creatinine can reflect the kidney capacity in excreting me
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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Good Results of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy on PKD Treatment
Faced with Polycystic Kidney Disease, many patients, even doctors can do nothing but wait for dialysis or kidney transplant. However, the application of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has brought some good news for PKD patients because it can effectively slow down the progress of the disease and then delay or avoids dialysis.
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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Stem Cell Research on Polycystic Kidney Disease
Stem cell transplant is a newly developed technology in medicine field and it has been applied in kidney disease treatment in recent years. Through many years research, Stem cells have shown its great effect on treating kidney disease, including Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Posted on Dec-15-2011
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High Creatinine Level and Low Hemoglobin Level
Question: I have had Diabetes for 6 years, and also have Hypertension, recently, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 of CKD. My Creatinine level is 2.39, and Hemoglobin level is 10.9. What can help me?
Answer: Your Creatinine level is much higher, which means your kidneys have been damaged. You have anemia, because of your low hemoglobin, do you know? While anemia is just the complication of the kidney disease, the kidneys can secrete a kind of hormone called as erythropoietin, erythropoietin can pr
Posted on Dec-14-2011
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What is the Expectant Lifetime of Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease Have
Most of patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease are born with this disease, but few of the patients are acquired. Actually, Polycystic Kidney Disease is not horrible, the horrible thing is that the cysts will grow larger and larger, and they will take up the space of the whole kidneys, thus leading to damage of kidneys, renal fibrosis. At last, Polycystic Kidney Disease will develop into Uremia. Some patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease will die of Uremia. So the early treatment of Polycystic
Posted on Dec-14-2011
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Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease
With the development of the medical technology, much progression has been achieved on the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). At present, Stem Cell Transplant has been introduced into the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease as brand new technology, which has shown its tremendous vitality. Stem cells have the ability of self-renewing. That means the stem cells can regenerate a mass of offspring that may have the exactly characteristics with the original stem cells. At the same time,
Posted on Dec-14-2011
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Kidney Dialysis Side Effects
The kidneys are the filters of our body. Everyday, they process about 200 quarts of blood, and separate out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water from it. When the kidneys stop functioning properly, these waste products and extra water begin to circulate in the body. Patients in end stage renal failure, are kept alive by dialysis. Before taking a look at the side effects of kidney dialysis, let's first know about kidney dialysis.
Posted on Dec-14-2011
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How to Control Creatinine Level in Blood When It Is 300mmol/L
Creatinine in blood is an important index of kidney conditions. If your creatinine level in blood is high, it means there may be kidney disease or kidney damages. When creatinine level in blood has been increased to 300mmol/L, it shows that the kidney has been damaged. We need to control it as soon as possible to avoid further damages to kidney function. What is the best way to control it?
Posted on Dec-14-2011
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A Narration of Patient with PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease)
My name is Jenna, and I am 42 years old. Fifteen years ago, Polycystic Kidney Disease claimed my mother’s life when she was just 50. My local doctor told us Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of hereditary disease and we sisters have a 50% chance to get it. So, he suggested us to perform a check in hospital.
Posted on Dec-12-2011
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