What are the Dangers When a Kidney Cyst Gets Ruptured

2014-06-26 02:07

What are the dangers when a kidney cyst gets ruptured? Kidney cyst is a kind of kidney disease with fluid-filled cysts on kidneys. And the simple kidney cysts are often occurred when people are older than 50 years old. In this article, we will get further understanding of the kidney cyst.

In most cases, the kidney cysts will not get enlarged, and it will not cause any severe symptoms. However, in some other cases, the kidney cyst will be enlarged. When the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, patients will be recommended to have surgery to remove the big kidney cyst, because it can get ruptured easily. Then what are the dangers when a kidney cyst gets ruptured?

1. Pain

When the kidney cyst gets ruptured, patients will have a sudden pain around the area of kidneys. In addition, when the kidney cyst gets enlarged, it can also cause back pain, side pain or abdominal pain. Besides, the infections in kidneys caused by the kidney cyst rupture can also cause the pains in kidneys.

2. Blood in urine

When the kidney cyst is ruptured, the blood vessels in cyst walls will be ruptured, which will cause the blood in urine. Besides, the enlargement of kidney cysts will also oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. And this can also cause blood in urine. If the blood urine cant be controlled well, it will cause further damage to kidneys.

3. Infection

When the kidney cysts get ruptured, the fluid in kidneys will flow out, and this will cause infections in kidneys. In addition, when the fluid flow into abdominal area, it will cause the abdominal infections as well, which is life-threatening for patients.

In addition, there are also some other dangers that can be caused by urinary tract infection, sepsis, hemorrhage and acute kidney failure.

From above, we can know that the ruptured kidney cyst will cause many dangers to kidneys, which will make a bad prognosis for patients, so people need to have early treatment for the kidney cyst.

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