Patient's question:
Hello? Doctor, I have a question to ask for advice. I am 23 years old and have a kidney with polycystic kidney disease. How should it be treated? What are the after-effects after treatment? Will it affect future kidney function? What are the precautions for polycystic kidney disease at 23?Doctor's answer:
The topic of your statement about Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) at the age of 23, Polycystic Kidney Disease is a congenital genetic disease that affects both kidneys. Unlike kidney cysts that are prone to occur, its kidneys are filled with cysts of varying sizes that can communicate with each other, gradually reducing kidney volume and controlling renal parenchyma, causing expansion and leading to functional harm until chronic kidney failure. Polycystic Kidney Disease is divided into two types: the infantile type is a recessive chromosomal hereditary disease, often accompanied by other congenital malformations, and most die within a few months, with relatively rare clinical diagnosis; the adult type is a dominant chromosomal hereditary disease, usually occurring in middle age, and is also accompanied by polycystic lesions in other organs, such as the liver, spleen, pancreas, ovaries, and bones. Its onset has a family aggregation, and both men and women can be affected, with the risk being proportional.