Kidney cyst treatment

The exact causes of kidney cysts are unknown, but there are factors that increase the risk of developing kidney cysts:

• Kidney injuries,
• Hypertension,
• Kidney cyst in relatives,
• Inflammatory kidney diseases,
• Oncological diseases,
• Urolithiasis,
• Tuberculosis of the kidneys,
• Diabetes mellitus,
• Anomalies of the kidney structure

Also, the probability of developing a kidney cyst increases with age.

Almost all cysts are benign, but sometimes there are cysts with signs of malignancy or cancer in the cyst. In order to assess the degree of danger of the cyst, the Bosniak criteria are used:

Category I

Simple benign kidney cysts that are clearly visualized by ultrasound, CT, or MRI.
They look like a liquid surrounded by a wall. The cyst wall is not thickened and has the same thickness throughout.

Category II

Have some changes. They have septa and / or calcium deposits. The cyst wall still remains without thickening. No more than 3 cm.

IIF category

Benign cysts, the size of which is more than 3 cm. They contain several partitions and calcium deposits in the form of clusters and nodules. When X-ray examinations do not accumulate contrast.

Category III

Relatively benign formations. There are indistinct contours, thickened partitions, and heterogeneous areas of calcium deposition. There is also a thickening of the wall in certain intervals. Most often, they require a biopsy.

Category IV

The formations have an uneven and even bumpy contour, an uneven wall, and increased blood flow. In X-ray studies, contrast is accumulated. Such formations are most often malignant.

It can pass in children. But in most cases, kidney cysts do not pass on their own, but, on the contrary, grow at an average growth rate of 1.5 mm per year. Therefore, you should not neglect medical examinations.

• Acute urinary retention,
• Pyelonephritis,
• Kidney hemorrhage,
• Suppuration of the cyst

• The presence of a da Vinci robot, on which you can perform the removal of a kidney cyst through an incision up to 2 cm. After such an operation, you can leave the clinic on the same day, there is no pain and no need to change your usual lifestyle.
• Attentiveness to histological examination. In foreign clinics, in contrast to domestic ones, there are clearly observed protocols for histological examination of surgical material. Accordingly, the patient can be sure that he really removed the kidney cyst, and not a malignant formation, and removed radically, that is, did not leave the walls of the cyst in the body, and it will not give a relapse.
• Relatively low cost of treatment. Treatment abroad is usually more expensive than treatment at home, but since cyst removal operations are simple, it is affordable for many patients.