When Do Kidney Cyst Patients Need to Have Surgery

2014-05-30 07:45

When do kidney cyst patients need to have surgery? This is a common question for kidney cyst patients. As we know, kidney cyst is a common kidney disease for people who is older than 50%. For most cases, patients will don’t need to have surgery, because the kidney cysts will not cause some severe symptoms for them.

When do kidney cyst patients need to have surgery?

For most of the cases, the kidney cysts will not get enlarged, and patients will have no symptoms. In this condition, they just need to have regular test to observe their illness condition, which can help have prompt treatment as early as possible.

Here are some conditions that patients need to have surgery with their kidney cysts.

1. Kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm

When the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, the kidney cyst may oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. In this condition, patients need to have surgery to shrink the kidney cysts, which will be helpful for the illness condition.

2. Severe symptoms

In some cases, although the kidney cyst is not larger than 4 cm, people will also have some severe symptoms such as proteinuria, blood urine, back pain, high blood pressure, etc, all these can be caused by the kidney cyst. In this condition, patients need to remove the kidney cysts, which can help relieve the symptoms.

3. Infections

Infection is the most dangerous factor for kidney cyst patients. When the kidney cyst get infections, it will worsen the illness condition of patients. In this condition, patients also need to have treatment to remove the kidney cyst through a surgery.

Above are the conditions that kidney cyst patients need to have a surgery to remove the big kidney cysts, which will be good for the illness condition of patients.

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