The Stages of PKD can be classified into five stages:
I. Occurrence Stage：Since it is a kind of inherited disease, the patients were born with it. However, due to its small size in the early period, the cysts can be hardly examined when patients are younger than 20 years old. Therefore, if there are Polycystic Kidney Disease cases in family, the patients should take examination as early as possible, in order to observe the development of cyst.
II. Growth Stage: In the patients’30s and 40s, the cysts may develop very fast, medically, we call this period as growth period. In this period, with aggressive treatment, we can stop or stave off the development of cyst with the applications of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy to promote blood circulation and remove stasis, and finally, lengthening the PKD patients’ lifespan. Therefore, this period is also a crucial period to treat the disease.
III. Swollen Stage: As the cysts continues to develop, especially when the patients have been 40 years old, the size of cyst will enlarge to over 4cm, and this period before ulceration is called swollen period. With the development of cysts, a series of clinical symptoms will occur, such as backache, albuminuria, hematuria, high blood pressure and so on. However, with effective integration therapy of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, the disease development can be controlled.
VI. Rapture Stage: During the development, once affected by various factors, the cysts may get ruptured. Such patients with PKD have to be hospitalized in order to aggressively control infections, or it may arouse sepsis and acute deterioration of renal function.
V. Uremia Stage: Patients with PKD in this period should not lose confidence, because Stem Cell Transplant and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmostherapy can still help them to protect remained renal functions and prevent the acute deterioration of the disease.
