Different Types of Kidney Cyst

2014-07-10 03:43

Kidney cyst is a common kidney disease among people, but there are several types of kidney cysts. In this article, we will introduce the different types of kidney cysts in people. And we hope this will be helpful for all the kidney cysts patients.

1. Adult kidney cyst

Adult kidney cyst is also know as polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney cysts. For PKD patients, they have numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and kidneys will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. Patients will have some severe symptoms such as frequent urination at night, back pain, high blood pressure, blood in urine, or protein in urine, etc. PKD will gradually develop into kidney failure, which is progressive process. About 10% patients will have kidney stones, and 30% patients will have polycystic liver.

2. Simple kidney cyst

Simple kidney cyst can be unilateral or bilateral, and patients will have one or more fluid-filled kidney cysts on kidneys. For people who are more than 50 years old, about 50% of them will have kidney cysts. For most of the patients, they will have no symptoms with the simple kidney cysts. But they also need to have regular test to observe their condition, and have early treatment if they have some symptoms.

3. Acquired kidney cyst

The acquired kidney cyst is mainly postnatal, which is occurred after the uremic or dialysis. For those patients, they have no kidney cyst before the disease, but after the long term dialysis or uremic, they will get kidney cysts. For these cases, there are less than 4 kidney cysts in one kidneys, and some kidney cysts will get infection or even get canceration.

Above are the 3 common kinds of kidney cysts. For people who get kidney cysts oon their kidneys, they may need to have early treatment, which can help prevent the kidney failure.

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