What Is Renal Cortical Cyst and How to Treat It

2014-10-16 06:43

Renal cortical cyst is a common kidney problem that is usually detected through B ultrasound or CT scan. Kidney is an important organ to maintain physical health, so when there is something goes wrong with kidney, we must be especially careful and take treatment as soon as possible, so as to protect our kidneys from being damaged. For this reason, many people becomes scared and do not know what to do when a renal cortical cyst is found.

What is renal cortical cyst?

Kidney cyst or renal cyst refers to fluid collection in kidney which can be bilateral or unilateral. For renal cortical cyst, it refers to cyst that grow in renal cortex, the outer part of kidney. Renal cortical cyst can be bilateral or unilateral. It may keep being in small size or enlarges over time. Renal cortical cyst causes pain feeling in lower back easily, so many patients go to have their kidneys examined mainly due to unbearable kidney pain.

How to treat renal cortical cyst?

Proper management of renal cortical cyst helps to prevent kidney damages as well as many other health tissues. Therefore, knowing how to treat renal cortical cyst is very important.

In general, for small renal cortical cyst, if it causes no physical discomforts and meanwhile not enlarge over time, no treatment is needed. In such a case, what patients need to do is to have regular test about it and kidney, so as to make sure kidney function is not affected.

For large renal cortical cyst, there are mainly two treatment methods:

Surgery: Surgery is a very effective way to deal with renal cortical cyst. It cut cyst off kidney and solve problem effectively, but unfortunately, surgery is painful and risky and in some cases, renal cortical cyst appears again after surgery.

Chinese medicine: Chinese medicine is another treatment option for renal cortical cyst. It treats kidney cyst by shrinking it into small size. As we have mentioned above, small renal cortical cyst is harmless and can be left alone if causes no damages on health, so when large renal cortical cyst is shrunk, kidney function is protected well. Chinese medicine is painless and more safe, but works relatively slower than surgery.

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