What is the Best Treatment for Cortical Renal Cysts

People may get the diagnosis of cortical renal cyst out of surprise when they do routine physical examinations. Actually kidney cyst is a common kidney disorders that may occur on people as they are getting older. Proper treatment for cortical renal cysts could help delay or prevent progression of the illness condition, and the target would be protecting health functioning renal cells and preventing development of advanced kidney disease.

The same as many other types of kidney disorders, renal cortical cyst is a latent disease. Cortical renal cyst is a closed fluid-filled sac that is located on renal cortex. Early symptoms such as back pains and waist soreness may be misunderstood as caused by heavy working pressure by the patients, so people may miss the early diagnosis of cortical cysts. Some severe kidney cysts, especially ruptured cysts or combined infections, people may experience evident waist or abdominal discomforts. In some cases, ureter or renal calices oppressed by enlarged cysts can cause hydronephrosis and secondary infections, further giving rise to waist pains, fever and urinary tract infections.

Well then, what is the best treatment for cortical renal cysts? Renal cortical cyst develops gradually and the bothering problem is that the disease is refractory. Management of blood pressure, dietary modifications (low sodium and proper proteins) and regular physical examinations help to slow down enlargement of renal cortical cysts and worsening of the illness condition. Treatment also includes methods to tackle combined infections, waist pains, bleeding and cyst rupture.

However, the above methods are ways to delay the progression process. The enlargement of cysts doesn’t stop, and with the cyst getting bigger and bigger, the cortical cyst could oppress healthy renal tissues and impair renal functions. If people already have a big cyst and reduced renal functions, a surgical treatment could help to treat the cyst, however, the cyst can get enlarged in a short term. This is because the activated renal tubular cells that secrete cystic liquid and enlarge the cyst are not controlled correctively.

Therefore, renal cortical cyst as above mentioned can relapse very easily, and in prolonging process the kidneys can get damaged gradually. Effective treatment for cortical renal cyst should include reabsorbing cystic fluid, inactivate cystic epithelial cells and repairing injured renal cells, by which the patients don’t need to worry about risks of further deterioration into kidney failure. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is a good choice to treat cortical kidney cyst, but the treatment and functioning process as opposed to western medicine treatment need a longer process that requires patients’ patience and cooperation with an expert doctor.

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