The long－term management of cystic kidney disease in children / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Cystic kidney disease in children is a group of kidney diseases with single or multiple cysts in the kidney that are caused by different reasons. According to the etiologies,cystic kidney disease can be divided into genetic or non_genetic type,and few of those are caused by another disease. Cyst in kidney can be isolation,and also can be one of the phenotypes of another syndrome disease. It can occur in infancy,childhood or adulthood,or both of them. The therapies are different because of the different pathogenesis and pathology,and also because of the changing clinical fea_ture in different age stage. These diseases should be detected,diagnosed and treated early,and it is absolutely important to make a systematic long_term management of these diseases.