Renal Cyst

What is renal cyst? Just as its name implies, it is general terms of cystic lesions in kidney. The common renal cysts include simple renal cysts, Parapelvic cyst and polycystic kidney. With the popularization of physical examination and B ultrasonic and CT, the testing rate has been increased greatly and renal cyst has become a common disease. Some renal tumor disease will occur structure which is similar to cystic structure caused by necrosis and cavity inside cysts.
The cause of kidney cysts is not fully understood. Most patients are adult and a few children will suffer from this disease. The disease occurs in males more than in females, morbidity will go up with the age. About half of people who are more than 50 years old will experience one or more simple renal cysts. Among the people aged 70, morbidity will up to 90%. For simple renal cyst, the cyst wall is thin and transparent and with faint yellow fluid inside. The cyst wall will incrassate if you had infection before, and fibrosis will also happen, even calcification.
The smaller simply renal cysts grow slowly and do less harm to kidney function. Canceration probability is also small, and it only need to observe regularly. For simply renal cyst which diameter is more than 4cm , cysts enlarge quickly and cysts questionable to canceration, you should think about operation.
Symptoms for renal cyst
1 Waist and stomach discomfort or pain. The pain is characterized by dull pain and the pain will cover legs and back.
2 Blood urine, it manifested as microscopic hematuria and gross hematuria
3 Abdominal mass, it is the main cause of the illness. About 60%-80% of them can touch intumescent kidney. The larger of the kidney, the worse of the kidney function.
4 Proteinuria, the amount is small. Within 24 hours, the quantity is no more than 2g, so there is no reason to happen renal disease syndrome.

5 High blood pressure. Cyst oppresses kidney. Renal ischemia will happen and renin increases, thus high blood pressure happens.

How to Prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease from Developing into Kidney Failure?

Kidney failure is the most terrible consequence for patients. If it doesn't happen, they can live like normal people. Kidney failure symptoms are complicated. Except backache, abdominal mass and blood urine, many complications will also happen，such as high blood pressure, cyst infection and fracture. At advanced stage, belly swelling, back swelling pain, difficult breathing, copious urine infection and nausea and vomiting will all come, and patients will suffer a lot of pain. Polycystic kidney disease patients should do test regularly and pay more attention to the early symptoms. How prevent polycystic kidney disease developing into kidney failure? Methods:
1 High blood pressure, urine infection and cyst fracture are common complications and main factors aggravating kidney function damage, you should prevent and treat them earlier. But when you take medicines, you should notice the toxic effects. But if blood urine is not stopping, your back is pain; it may caused by cysts infection accompanied with bleeding or cysts fracture. You should go hospital to receive treatment. Otherwise, kidney failure will be more serious.
2 You should find symptoms as soon as possible. It’s reported that polycystic kidney disease has prodigious inherited tendency and it is equal to inherit for male and female. There are many people experience the disease in a family with polycystic kidney disease history. Because symptoms begin to happen at the age of 25-35, some people find disease after occurring kidney failure. For the number of family with polycystic kidney disease history, you should have examination regularly in order to receive treatment in time. B ultrasonic, CT, MRT all can diagnose the disease. Blood creatinine and urea nitrogen can reflect the degree of kidney failure and the disease situation, so you should test them regularly. Genetic diagnosis can know about the baby’s inheritance situation. It is of great help to increase aristogenesis rate.
3 Renal cyst puncture treatment. It is a common treatment in west recently, and it is applied to all renal cyst diseases. Its aim is to eliminate or relieve oppression to the kidney tissue and increase blood flow and then protect kidney function by puncturing to cysts. It also has effect on treating cyst infection, bleeding and emphysema. The advantages are easy operation, less harm to tissue and it can work repeatedly. The disadvantage is it can not cure cyst completely.
4 Family nurse. Polycystic kidney failure is chronic disease. It can be worse due to the mood change, tiredness and tumble injure. So the patients should have a good mood, cooperate with doctors. You are suggested to eat more light and nutritive foods and eat less cold or piquancy foods, and stop smoking and keep stool expedite. You can enjoy some amusement, but you should prevent back extrusion to avoid cyst rupture hemorrhage. The patients with serious condition should rest in bed.

5 TCM therapies. It has a good effect on treating chronic kidney failure, especially for early stage patients. It can relieve symptoms obviously and control the development of the disease. For kidney failure caused by PKD, we can select Dangshen, huangqi, rheum officinale, the root of red-rooted salvia and so on. They can strengthen healthy qi and eliminate pathogenic factors and remove stasis by activating blood. But it is slow in effect and the treatment period is long.

The symptoms for polycystic kidney disease

PKD is a common hereditary kidney disease, featuring as all kinds of cysts occur on the kidneys. Cysts become larger and larger, and kidneys function are damaged finally, which can lead to end-stage renal failure. The symptoms for PKD include:
1 Anemia
Most patients will experience an anemia process from light to heavy accompanied with nocturnal enuresis. The symptom is related to the decrease of erythrogenin and the decline of renal functions.
2 waist and abdominal discomfort
Your waist and abdomen have tension, and sometimes the pain is fierce. This breaks out intermittently or persistently. It manifested as stomachache sometimes, the pain will emit to the upper abdomen, groin, back and chest. The pain can aggravate because of running, sedentariness and activities.
3 Elevation of blood pressure
High blood pressure is a common symptom of PKD, and it happens before the decline of renal functions. It is also accompanied with headache, swirl, and it has close relations with hyperfunction of renin-angiotensin system.
4 Goiters on belly
When kidney increase to a degree, bossing can be felt on each side of kidneys, and the bossing can move with breath.
5 Urine abnormal
This characterized by proteinuria or blood urine, it is an early symptom of PKD. The main manifestation is proteinuria, which is related to barrier function of Glomerulus. Blood urine is a common way to test if you have suffered from PKD.
6 Enlarged kidneys
Nephropathia differs from other side, the sizes are variant, kidney can bestrewed enterocoelia, there are many bossings on surface of kidney, and anomaly of shape happens, irregularity will also, and it toughed hard.
7 Renal insufficiency

Individual patients suffer from kidney failure at teenage. A few people will develop kidney dysfunction before 40 years old. At 70, about half of the people can keep functions good. But patients with high blood pressure will develop into kidney failure more quickly. There are several patients can keep functions good at the age of 80.