Symptoms and Treatment for Renal Cortical Cyst

2014-07-05 05:58

Renal cortical cyst refers to fluid collection that appears in the renal cortex, the outer part of kidney. Knowing well about its symptoms and treatment helps to avoid unnecessary problems, so today this article goes around symptoms and treatment for renal cortical cyst. Hope it is helpful for you.

Symptoms of renal cortical cyst

1. Small renal cortical cyst causes no symptoms in some cases.

2. Patients my experience pain feeling in kidney location when the cyst pull renal capsule and this is because there are nerves on renal capsule.

3. If the cyst is very large, it will damage kidney tissues, kidney function will decline. Under such a condition, patients will experience a series of symptoms like proteinuria, high blood pressure and tiredness.

4. Large renal cortical cyst bursts easily, and it may rupture due to mild knock on kidney location. Rupture of kidney cyst is always accompanied with severe back pain and blood urine.

Treatment for renal cortical cyst

There are two treatment options for renal cortical cyst:

Surgery:

Surgery is the most direct way to remove renal cortical cyst. And the most common two types are windowing decompressing and laparoscopic surgery. Surgery is an effective way, but it is painful. Also due to its high risk for kidney infection, many patients refuse to take this treatment.

Chinese medicine:

Chinese medicine is another treatment option for renal cortical cyst patients. Compred with surgeyr, it works slowly, but it is safer and painless. Therefore, it is a good choice for these who refuse to do surgery.

No treatment is needed if renal cortical cyst is smaller than 3cm and meanwhile it causes no symptoms. In such a case, what patients need to do is just to have regular test to see if the cysts are enlarging over time. If yes, measures are needed and if no, it can be left alone.

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