Is kidney cyst scary?

The kidneys are very important organs. If you take good care of your kidneys, your body will generally be healthy. In recent years, more and more patients have suffered from kidney disease. If a person's kidneys are abnormal, the person's metabolic organs will also be affected. Kidney cysts are a very common disease. Suffering from kidney cysts not only makes people suffer from pain, but also causes great psychological pressure.

Are kidney cysts scary?

There are two types of renal cysts: benign cysts and malignant cysts. Most people have benign kidney cysts, which are not serious. About 50%-70% of people will have a kidney cyst in their lifetime. If the cyst is small and the pressure on the kidney is light, no treatment is required. However, if the cyst is larger, more than five centimeters, it needs to be treated. Treatment methods include ultrasound-guided puncture and drainage to aspirate the pus and then inject fluid for hardening; and laparoscopic renal cyst removal. Of course, some are malignant cysts and should be treated actively.

The growth of renal cysts will continue with age, compressing the surrounding normal renal tissue, causing ischemia and hypoxia in the tissues around the cysts, and gradually hardening them. If they are not effectively treated at this time, they will cause necrosis of the renal tissue, and then the process of renal fibrosis will be initiated, and the kidney function will gradually decline. Some patients are sensitive to the triggering factors, and the cysts will continue to grow, which may threaten their lives in severe cases. If the patients are insensitive to the stimulation of the triggering factors, they will suffer from renal cysts for life without any impact.

What is a kidney cyst

1. Adult polycystic kidney disease is a congenital hereditary renal cyst disease. In polycystic kidney disease, the renal parenchyma is filled with countless round cysts of varying sizes that are not connected to the outside world and contain fluid. The small cysts are invisible to the naked eye, while the large ones can be several centimeters in size, hence the name polycystic kidney disease. Symptoms include increased nocturia, low back pain, high blood pressure, etc. Urinalysis may reveal hematuria and a small amount of proteinuria, which often slowly develops into chronic renal failure. 10% of polycystic kidney patients have kidney stones, and 30% have polycystic liver disease. An experienced doctor can confirm this renal cyst with the help of B-ultrasound and intravenous pyelography.

2. Simple renal cyst may be a congenital abnormal kidney disease, which is a unilateral or bilateral kidney with one or several round cystic cavities of varying sizes that are not connected to the outside world. Most of them are unilateral, so it is called simple renal cyst. The incidence of simple renal cysts may increase with age. 50% of people over 50 years old can be found to have this type of renal cyst by B-ultrasound. This disease can be diagnosed with the help of B-ultrasound and CT.

3. Acquired renal cysts mainly occur after uremia or dialysis treatment. It has nothing to do with age, but is related to the duration of hemodialysis. The kidneys originally do not have renal cysts. According to literature reports, most patients who have been on dialysis for more than 3 years will develop cysts. There are at least 4 cysts in one of its kidneys, most of which are 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. Some cysts can become infected or even cancerous. Ultrasound or CT scans can confirm the disease.