kidney disease?

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i have polysystic kisney disease, and have just been diagnosed with kidney stones and i'm 25 years. can anyone put me onto some useful information. i have to have lots of tests to determine why i am developing the stones. i have never smoked and i never get drunk when i do drink it is only a few cans of spirits once every week or two.

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well keep stong and keep your head hi

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You will certainly need to act more cautiously and not overload the one good kidney you have. The best thing to do is consult your family physician about being kind to your kidney.

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APKD is an inherited disorder.Stone formation is one of the known complications.Most common is high Blood Pressure.U have to have continuous monitoring of your renal function.Take pleny of fluids to wash away your stones.U may undergo lots of tests but more chances are that no cause will be found out for stone formation.U have to bear with it.

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Do you mean "Polycystic kidney disease"?
Please see the webpages for more details on Polycystic kidney disease and Kidney stone.

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What is polycystic kidney disease?

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an inherited disease that affects the kidneys. Sacs of fluid (called cysts) grow in the kidneys. If too many cysts grow or if they get too big, the kidneys become damaged. The cysts may also cause pain or may get infected.

PKD is the most common inherited disease in the United States. Children of parents with PKD have a 50% chance of getting the disease.

How will PKD affect me?

Most people with PKD can lead a normal life. In many people, the disease is mild and causes only minor problems. PKD is more severe in some patients and can cause kidney failure. About 60% of patients develop high blood pressure, which can be treated with blood pressure medicine. About 50% of patients with PKD have kidney failure by age 60. Dialysis (blood filtering) and kidney transplants are both effective treatments for kidney failure. PKD is generally worse in men, blacks and patients with sickle cell disease. There is also a childhood form of PKD which is usually more severe than the type that occurs in adults.

What other organs can be hurt by PKD?
People with PKD may also have cysts in the liver, but these cysts seldom cause problems. Heart valve problems sometimes occur. Other organs that may be affected include the brain, intestines, pancreas, ovaries and spleen. If PKD affects the brain, it can cause an aneurysm (a bulging blood vessel that can rupture).

What are the symptoms of PKD?
The most common symptom of PKD is high blood pressure. Other symptoms are:
Pain in the back and side
Blood in the urine
Frequent kidney infections
Not all patients will have all of these symptoms.

How is PKD diagnosed?
PKD is often diagnosed when a person begins to have symptoms. Symptoms most often occur in middle age.

If you have symptoms of PKD or if you are at risk of the disease, your doctor may want you to have an ultrasound exam to look at your kidneys. An ultrasound exam provides a picture of your organs by passing sound waves through your body. An ultrasound exam can detect cysts in your kidneys. Your doctor may order an x-ray exam called CT (computerized tomography) to look for cysts in the kidney.

Who should be checked for PKD?
If one of your parents has PKD, you should consider having an ultrasound exam of your kidneys. If you have PKD and you also have a relative who has had a brain aneurysm, your doctor may suggest that you have a CT or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of your brain to check for an aneurysm. (MRI uses a magnetic field and radio waves to produce a picture of your brain.) If you are at high risk of an aneurysm, your doctor may suggest that you have CT or MRI of the brain every 5 years to detect an aneurysm before it causes problems.

Is there treatment for PKD?
No treatment is available for the cysts that occur due to PKD. If the cysts are causing symptoms, these symptoms can be treated so you will be more comfortable.

Can PKD be diagnosed in unborn babies?
Yes. PKD can be diagnosed in unborn babies using a test called amniocentesis (analysis of the amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby) or a test called chorionic villus sampling (examination of a small piece of the placenta). If you have PKD and you're pregnant, talk with your doctor about these procedures.

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Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys. The cysts are filled with fluid. PKD cysts can slowly replace much of the mass of the kidneys, reducing kidney function and leading to kidney failure.

The kidneys are two organs, each about the size of a fist, located in the upper part of a person's abdomen, toward the back. The kidneys filter wastes from the blood to form urine. They also regulate amounts of certain vital substances in the body.

When PKD causes kidneys to fail—which usually happens after many years—the patient requires dialysis or kidney transplantation. About one-half of people with the major type of PKD progress to kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

PKD can cause cysts in the liver and problems in other organs, such as the heart and blood vessels in the brain. These complications help doctors distinguish PKD from the usually harmless "simple" cysts that often form in the kidneys in later years of life.

In the United States, about 500,000 people have PKD, and it is the fourth leading cause of kidney failure. Medical professionals describe two major inherited forms of PKD and a noninherited form:

Autosomal dominant PKD is the most common inherited form. Symptoms usually develop between the ages of 30 and 40, but they can begin earlier, even in childhood. About 90 percent of all PKD cases are autosomal dominant PKD.


Autosomal recessive PKD is a rare inherited form. Symptoms of autosomal recessive PKD begin in the earliest months of life, even in the womb.


Acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) develops in association with long-term kidney problems, especially in patients who have kidney failure and who have been on dialysis for a long time. Therefore it tends to occur in later years of life. It is not an inherited form of PKD.

The genetic defect that causes polycystic kidney disease may be dominant or recessive. That is, a person with the disease has inherited either one copy of a dominant gene from one parent or two copies of a recessive gene, one from each parent. Those with dominant gene inheritance usually have no symptoms until adulthood; those with recessive gene inheritance develop severe illness in childhood.

Symptoms and Complications

In the recessive form of this disease that begins during childhood, the cysts become very large and cause the abdomen to protrude. A severely affected newborn may die shortly after birth, because kidney failure can develop in the fetus, leading to poor development of the lungs. The liver is also affected, and at 5 to 10 years of age, a child with this disorder tends to develop high pressure in the blood vessels that connects the intestine and the liver (portal system). Eventually, liver failure and kidney failure occur.

In the dominant form of polycystic kidney disease, the cysts develop slowly in number and size. Typically, symptoms begin in early or middle adulthood, although occasionally the disease is not discovered until after death at autopsy. Symptoms usually include discomfort or pain in the abdomen or side (flank), blood in the urine, frequent urination, and intense crampy (colicky) pain from kidney stones. In other cases, fatigue, nausea, and other consequences of kidney failure may result because the person has less functioning kidney tissue. Chronic urinary tract infections can worsen the kidney failure. At least half of the people with polycystic kidney disease have high blood pressure at the time of diagnosis.

About one third of people who have polycystic kidney disease also have cysts in their liver, but these cysts do not affect liver function. As many as 10% of people have dilated blood vessels (aneurysms) in their brain. Usually, the dilated blood vessels cause headaches when they expand. Many of these brain aneurysms bleed and cause strokes.

Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment

A doctor suspects this disease on the basis of family history and laboratory tests of kidney function. When the disease is advanced and the kidneys are very large, the diagnosis is obvious. Ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) reveal the characteristic moth-eaten appearance of the kidneys and liver caused by the cysts.

Treating urinary tract infections and high blood pressure may prolong life. However, more than half of the people who have this disease develop kidney failure at some time in their life. Without dialysis or kidney transplantation, kidney failure is fatal.

Genetic testing is available to help people with polycystic kidney disease understand the probability that their children will inherit the condition.