Polycystic Kidney Disease and Hypertension

Your kidneys play a key role in keeping your blood pressure in a healthy range, and blood pressure, in turn, can affect the health of your kidneys. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, can damage the kidneys.

Polycystic kidney disease Hypertension is how it formed? Mainly cyst causes. Polycystic kidney cysts oppression to normal kidney tissue, so that renal ischemia, hypoxia, renal hypoperfusion. Polycystic kidney disease in patients with hypertension hypertension phenomenon occurs. Polycystic kidney disease in patients with renal hypertension occurs if the control is not timely, will continue to increase renal pathological damage, severe renal fibrosis, serum creatinine increased, disease progression will make blood pressure continues to rise, can lead to cardiac enlargement, heart failure. Some hypertensive patients with polycystic kidney disease progressed rapidly, kidney tissue pressure, impaired renal function, chronic renal insufficiency occurs, eventually leading to uremia.

Meanwhile Hypertension and PKD have close relationship. On one hand, Hypertension will speed up renal damages and cause cerebrovascular damages, therefore it is crucial to bring the blood pressure well under control for slowing down the deterioration of renal function. On the other hand, the aggravation of PKD will aggravate Hypertension as well. The enlarging cysts will surely press kidneys and other tissue, thus increasing the internal pressure. So we must keep blood pressure in normal range.