How does fetal polycystic kidney do

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The fetus has polycystic kidney how to do? The fetus has been six months now. A few days ago, I went to the women's and children's Hospital for B-ultrasound examination and found that the fetus has polycystic kidney. The doctor didn't tell me why. Then my wife and I went to the provincial women's and children's hospital to check and ask, but there was no result. Now the whole family is worried. I don't know what to do. Let's have a look

How does fetal polycystic kidney do

First: there are two types of polycystic kidney, autosomal recessive (infantile) polycystic kidney, which occurs in infancy and is rarely seen in clinic; then your baby may belong to this type; but because I didn't see your ultrasound image, it's not easy to make a diagnosis.

Second, ultrasound is generally the first choice, and CT or MRI can be performed when necessary; there is no specific treatment for this disease, mainly to control blood pressure and infection, which can effectively delay the progress of renal failure.

Third: polycystic kidney disease is a common hereditary kidney disease, mainly manifested as bilateral kidneys with multiple cysts of different sizes, cysts gradually increase, eventually damage the renal structure and function, leading to end-stage renal failure. Fetal polycystic kidney this situation needs to be based on the specific circumstances of the fetus, if the cystic kidney is relatively mild, consider it can be retained, your situation can be retained first, and actively under the guidance of the doctor symptomatic treatment.

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Polycystic kidney is also known as Potter (Ⅰ) syndrome, perlmann syndrome, congenital cystic tumor disease, cystic kidney, bilateral renal hypoplasia syndrome, polycystic kidney, benign multilocular cystic tumor of kidney and polycystic disease. In 1941, Zhu Xianyi first reported that this syndrome is not uncommon. Polycystic kidney can be divided into two types: autosomal recessive (infantile) polycystic kidney, which occurs in infancy and is rare in clinic; autosomal dominant (adult) polycystic kidney, which is often found in youth and middle age, can also occur at any age.