Can Women with PKD be Pregnant

Polycystic kidney disease(PKD) is an inherited condition and is caused owing to a genetic defect.Many young female PKD patients want to know can they give birth to healthy babies and whether polycystic kidney disease will affect pregnancy.

If you are healthy without any symptoms, Polycystic Kidney Disease is unlikely to affect the women's pregnancy, and they can still conceive successfully.But it patients' kidney function is lower than 20% or they begin undergoing dialysis.They will not be weighty.

In case of ARPKD, it is rare in clinical and only when both parents carry the abnormal gene can the children have the disease and the incidence is 25%; in case of ADPKD, it has higher incidence than that of ARPKD because the disease can be inherited with one gene.

So for ADPKD patients, can they be pregnant and can they have a healthy baby without affecting the gravida¡¯sShealth. Let¡¯sSfirst aanalysesthe incidence that they have ha healthybaby. If only the gravida has PKD and her husband is healthy, the child has a 50% incidence to inherit the disease; if both the gravida and her husband have the disease, then they have at most 25% to have a vigorous baby.

From the above analysis, we can see that, not all the PKD patients cannot bestow birth to babies and it should depend on the gravida's specific illness and physical conditions.Another issue that needs to be mentioned is the heredity of PKD. Prenatal gene diagnosis can help the gravida give birth to a vigorous baby such as the cyst gene detection of the amniotic fluid or hair cells at the 10th week of pregnancy.