What to do with kidney cysts

There are many common types of diseases. Different diseases have different treatment methods and also have some differences in symptoms. Therefore, before treating a disease, you must have a good understanding of the disease so that you will know what method is best to choose when treating it. What about kidney cysts? Kidney cysts are a disease that is very harmful to human health. This type of disease requires timely treatment.

Many people don’t know much about renal cysts, and after suffering from this type of disease, they don’t know what to do about it or how to best treat it. There are many treatments for renal cysts, and the treatment method should be selected based on the patient’s condition.

What to do with kidney cysts:

Since simple renal cysts are mostly asymptomatic and have little effect on renal function and surrounding tissues, they do not require treatment and only require follow-up for 6 months to 1 year. If the cyst is large in diameter, exceeding 5 cm, or produces symptoms of compression of surrounding tissues, causing urinary tract obstruction, cyst fluid aspiration and intracystic injection of sclerosing agent are required. If the cyst is large, with a diameter greater than 10 cm, surgery may be required.

Clinical manifestations

Simple renal cysts generally have no symptoms, but corresponding symptoms may occur when the cyst compression causes vascular occlusion or urinary tract obstruction. This disease is often discovered during urinary tract imaging examinations due to other diseases. In recent years, more and more health examinations have included abdominal B-type ultrasound examinations, and the detection rate of simple renal cysts has increased.

It was originally believed that simple cysts did not affect renal function. However, image analysis of renal CT examinations showed that after correction for age, gender, primary kidney disease, etc., patients with renal cysts had higher blood creatinine levels than those without renal cysts, and the more cysts there were, the higher the blood creatinine level. This result suggests that simple renal cysts may affect renal function.

Through the above introduction, what should we do with renal cysts? Surgery is the best choice. This treatment method is very helpful in improving the patient's disease condition. However, before choosing this method, it is also necessary to understand all aspects of it, so that when performing surgery, you will know how to do the best.